> Recently, I bought a Samsung 40GB hard disk to be used in a relatively old
> But I find that the BIOS of the PC does not even recognise the hard disk.

First, try to see if there is a BIOS upgrade for your motherboard, and flash
it to see if it can see beyond 2GB or whatever was the limit.

I am not sure does Samsung web-site offer a "disk-manager" type of software,
perhaps you might want to spend sometime to see if there is one there.  This
software would get over the BIOS limit.

Last, get a copy of comercial ontrack disk manager as Russel has
recommended.  You can see if there is any freebies or lower cost version at
http:www.download.com

I have changed the tag to OT.

Cheers, Ling SM

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