Yep, usually the limit is pegged at 137 GB.  If the BIOS won't show the full
capacity then you need a BIOS update.  Try the motherboard or computer
manufacturer's web site under support/downloads for the BIOS update.

When setting up a dual-boot system between Win98 and Win2K or XP, you always
(always!) want to install the older operating system first.  So you're
pretty much going to be stuck with C: = 20GB Win98 and then remainder =
Win2K.  While there may be tricks and convolutions to give you what you
want, it's not pretty or something I would advise someone to try unless I
had a well-tested cookbook approach, and I don't.

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard F. Bolha
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 1:14 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] New hard drive

Hello all:

I recently purchased a Western Digital 160 GB hard drive. It only
shows up as 136 GB in the BIOS? It only shows 131 GB that is
formatable as expected. Am I running into a bios limit of 136GB?

Also I tried settings the format to 111000 MB, but the last zero will
not type? The only way to change from formating it all, is to use the
backspace key. It will let me create a 20 GB partition leaving 111 GB
as D: drive. I would like it to be 111GB as C: = Win 2K and the
remainder 20GB as D: drive = win98.

Thanks in advance
Richard F. Bolha

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