Hi Sami,

Maxtor has some very good information about capacity barriers:

http://www.maxtor.com/technology/index.html

See: "Breaking the Capacity Barriers"

Personally, If I had a MB with a 4 year old BIOS, I think that I would upgrade
that before I bought a new hard drive <g>

Good Luck
Rick
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Sami Garzon wrote:

> ..... I've checked the BIOS; and the results were: AMI BIOS, flashable,
> Unknown version, PnP v1.0, and the bad thing: date=7/15/95!.....
>
> ..... I'll buy the 10.2Gg HD, I guess I can work with 8Gg by now. This
> way, when I Update the Mobo/BIOS/Processor, I'll already have a 10.2Gg. Is
> that right? Can I use NOW the HD as 8Gg and someday RETURNING him to
> 10.2Gg?.....
>

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