Is there a 130ish GB limit to formatting an NTFS drive when using XP (booting off the cd and installing XP on a new drive that hasnt been formatted)? I have noticed twice now on two different machines where I have put in 180gb drives and only been able to format 130gb of them, when I try to format it using the windows XP (pro) installation format utility. The first time it happened, I wrote it off as an old Bios / motherboard that couldnt support it.. But it turned out that we were able to format another 180gb drive in that machinewith no problem, *after* windows was installed (using windows disk management utility, or whatever its called)

But now, I have a brand new system, Intel E7205 chipset, and I seriously doubt there is a bios limitation going on here..

What's the word on this? I can't find info anywhere..