This question has been asked before, the answer is sadly "No", if your mobo
won't support large HDD (in your case, it doesn't), you can only use upto
whatever the mobo sees how big is the HDD (unless you use "special program
come with them", which I won't use for myself no matter how/when - unless
someone point a gun to my head ...). Even you changed a new mobo later, the
size won't change automatically unless you erase the HDD and start over
again (sometime Fdisk won't fix the mis-size problem, you will have to
"zero" fill the HDD - use a special program to write "Zero" from first
track, first sector on the harddisk, so that no info would left). Use a
large HDD as a "smaller" mis-sized HDD may not only create problem for later
change, it also can damage the HDD physically (I've seen it!).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "RiverRouge" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New HD installation


> Date: Dec 11, 2000
> Subject: New HD Installation
> From: William Patton
>
> Hello. I am about to purchase a 10gig WD HD.  I am wondering about what
> limitations to be aware of.  I have an Asus m/b with HX chipset, bios
5/97,
> 200MMX, win98SE.  Someone said there may be a 8gig limit of some sort.  I
> did not want to use the special software that comes with them.  If this
> limit is a function of the bios and I use it anyways and then later get a
> new m/b will that bios recognize the drive differently so that I will not
be
> able to read the drive as it would be with this m/b

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