> In the many years of working with computers, I've seen some strange and
> wonderful things happen with large hard drives.
>
> Most noticibly when installing a large (40gb) into a system that didnt
> support drives that big, the bios would not recognise it so I didnt
> bother setting the bios up at all.
>
> When I installed the disk management software, the whole 40gb drive was
> recognised without any settings in the bios for it at all.
>
> Must be magic or something.

Only if this was also the boot drive.  Otherwise it doesn't matter if the
bios can see it since it has no need to access it.  The operating system
can then later load the appropriate drivers and provide access to the
drive.


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