But will this make any difference since the BIOS will still only see the first 33GB of the drive? No matter which mode (LBA, LARGE, AUTO) I use in the BIOS settings to access the drive, the largest it will see is 33512MB. I take it motherboard manufacturers do not quote how large a disk their BIOS will recognise for a particular board, yes? Shane --- John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My question is, has anyone had similar problems or > > know why Win2000 will not allow any modifications > > to the drive? I checked the Abit website for a > BIOS > > upgrade, and although there is an update, it does > not > > mention anything about fixing the 33GB limit on > the > > BIOS. Does this mean the update will probably not > > contain a fix, or do the BIOS manufacturers not > > list these types of fixes? > > Also, does anyone know of a motherboard(preferably > > AMD Athlon board) that will support a drive this > > size out of the box? > > Hmm, it sounds like it could be a BIOS issue to me, > but I remember that > one being more of recognizing anything beyond 8gigs, > not 33. You could > try just booting any linux boot disk just to see how > large it sees the > disk as being, and even fdisk it from there. > > John > > > > > > > > -- > # John Madden weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 2EB9EA > # FreeLists, Free mailing lists for all: > //www.freelists.org > # UNIX Systems Engineer, Ivy Tech State College: > http://www.ivy.tec.in.us > # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in > life are free! > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com