Elliot,

If you are referring to my message about Partition Magic.....
What I said was....

                   Assuming your BIOS and/or HDD controller
                   can handle the larger drive size

You can split any physical drive into as many logical drives as you wish.
However, logical drives can only be created AFTER the storage system's
"framework" (cylinders and sectors)  has been "built" (using fdisk)
FDISK is limited by the maximum number of cylinders and sectors that
the BIOS and/or controller can address.

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
> 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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