hard drive partiton problem, PLEASE HELP!

>> when i install windows XP, and create a new NFS
partition

>> on an empty drive, win xp will only all for a maximum of
>> 2012mb partition when the hardrive is a 40gb capacity
>> drive. what do i do???

UPDATE:

i am booting from the winxp installation cd. there are no
other partitions on the drive currently, the drive was
once partitioned using western digital's disk utility. but
before xp installation i wipped the drive including the
MBR by writing zeros to the drive.
now i have another problem, i put the drive into another
computer of my and used partiton magic to resize the nfs
partiton and now xp wont boot, i get a flash of a blue
screen of death upon startup and then it reboots. ah.
anyway, if anyone knows how i can go about fixing this
problem by using xp to install on a clean drive and create
a nfs partiton that will exceed the 2012mb cap ive been
getting id gladly start from scratch.

please email me at: bmeouf@hotmail.com with any help.
thanks!!