I have also seen happen, when the drive is > than what bios recognises if the drive is placed in another PC it came come out as being total junk, put it back in the origional machine and all is well. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [EE]: 40GB Hard Disk for a Pentium 200MHz PC > Dominic Stratten wrote: > > > Glad you got it sorted Bala - you do need to be a bit careful > > though. I've done something similar to this before (albeit with a smaller > > hard drive) and when the data content of the hard drive reached the maximum > > > specified by the bios, data corruption occurred. > > > > You might be well advised to try filling the hard drive to > > capacity and see what happens to your data when it reaches over 32gb. > > Thanks, Dom. > > I guess, I need to get more than 50 CDs to fill up the hard disk to see what > happens when the total data size exceeds 32GB. The other option is to wait > till it reaches 32GB which in any case will happen in course of time! > > Regards, > Bala > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.