250gb hd problem

Hitachi 250gb hd, was working fine, everything was ok. It was split into two partitions a 128Gb clip, and a 104 gb clip. The 128gb clip had information on it. Now the drive is recognized in bios properly. When it boots to windows it comes up as 8gb, and has information on it, but I can't access it. One more thing the drive now says fat, when originialy it was ntfs. Under manager, The drive says it is split at 138g and 104 gb. Any ideas? when I run a drive test the drive says it has a bad cable, I swapped the cable out three or four times, to no avail.

I think I have it all listed, oh windows xp home, installed on it's own drive.

 

Has nothing to do with drivers or Spyware, it is more of a Bios issue. What is the manufacturer and model of the computer that this drive is in? Also, do you have SP2 installed for XP?

 

No on SP2, it's an asus a7n266. amd system with an athlon 1900.

 

Having SP2 will/can resolve problems with the drive not being seen for the full size. Is the drive a SATA or IDE? It could also be a problem with the IDE controller, not even with the IDE cable.

 

I would buy that if it never worked, but it was working fine last night. The bios is recognising the entire drive, windows is as well under management, but the contents of the drive are wrong, as is the rest of the information under my computer.

 

it is in fact IDE