Generally, the only way to install a hard drive larger than the motherboard
will support is to use either an add-on card which controls the drive, or drive
overlay software which essentially lies to the motherboard about how big the
drive is.

As far as I know, there's no way to chop a drive into smaller sections and have
each section seen, unless the motherboard can see the whole drive in the first
place.

Glen Sagers

Elliott Ryder wrote:

>         A while back I sent my  computer to a shop to have an 8G hard drive
> installed and was told that my mobo would only support a 6G one. The
> 6G  one was installed and it was partitioned into three 2G  partitions.
>  From a recent message in this list it appeared that one could install a HD
> larger  than the mobo would normally  accommodate if it were partitioned
> into smaller partitions (smaller than the maximum that the mobo would
> normally accommodate). Is this really true? If it is true, could I have
> installed a 20G HD and partitioned it into five 4G partitions? As  you can
> tell, this recent info has me confused.
>         Elliott

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