In a message dated 9/12/2005 11:33:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: You can also use the vendors software and make multiple partitions under 137GB. I have a 160GB drive running on a p1 using 2 x 80mb partitions. It has been there well over a year and no problems. -- David Hi, If the system doesn't support drives larger than 137GB (i.e. no 48 bit addressing), then it doesn't matter how you partition the drive, it simply runs out of addresses at 137GB. You just haven't filled the drive up enough to run into this limit yet. Once you do, you will start corrupting files below the 137GB limit, as the addressing 'wraps around' back to zero and starts overwriting files there, instead of above the 137GB point...been there, done that...I have saved all my CD's as WAVs (for home use) and as MP3's (for portable use)...the MP3's take up about 40GB, but the WAV's are almost 400GB. When I first started ripping to a 250GB drive, I had the file corruption happen when I hit the 137GB mark, so I tried repartitioning it...no improvement. I had to get an IDE card that supported large drives to use the space above 137GB. Now I have a 1.2 terabyte RAID setup (four 400GB drives in RAID 5), so I have LOTS more room for future expansion...:) HTH, Peter Hogan [log in to unmask] PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>