So I was right - Here it is - Change your BIOS setting and you should be OK. There are like 3 or 4 choices that you can select. If you saw 40 GB drives before, than your system definetily can see the 160 GB. Of course, only an NTFS partition or some form of Linux partition can actually be that big.
Standard - 528 MB max
LBA - 8.4 GB max
Large - anything bigger (I think - let me look at my own BIOS and I'll bb in a min)
EIDE specifications. With the growing capacity of hard disks on desktop computers, a redefinition of IDE specifications was necessary. The old IDE specification only supported drives up to 528 megabytes, which is the Normal partition setting. In 1994, the EIDE (Enhanced IDE) protocol was designed and now all new motherboards support it. This new protocol uses the LBA (Logic Block Addressing) system which considers logic blocks instead of heads, cylinders and sectors. It can support drive up to 8.4 GB. If your BIOS does not support LBA, several hard disk manufacturers provide drivers to trick the BIOS. You will also find a Large partition setting that can accommodate drives up to 1024 cylinders, but do not support LBA. Unfortunately, many large implementations don't work correctly for drives of over 1GB (there's no good reason why it wouldn't work for much larger drives though). Note that 1024 cylinders native is 528MB. The 528MB limit is the 1024 cyl / 16 head / 63 sector limit.
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