Biggest Harddrive Supported?

[Baum]

Hallo i've got an GA6BXC in an old PC (Intel 440BX Chipset),
the board is flashed with the latest beta bios wichs stable (my opinion)
As you can see in the title im looking for an new bigger HD and currently I've got an 40GB HD from Maxtor (37,2 GB Real Capacity).
As far as i know there is a limitation with 8GB, 32GB, 128GB, harddrives according to the Bios version and chipset limitation.
I would like to add an 80GB HD to the board but I don't know if it works and i can't buy it for "testing" or "on probe".
It should work because the 37GB HD is working and bigger than the 32GB, or is there another limitation??

[W1zzard]

the next limit after 37gb is is 137gb

for bigger than that:
Just Install XP normally (it only showed 137gb in the install for me), update to sp2, then go into comp. management in you mmc or control panel -> administrative tools and add the rest of the hard drive as a second partition.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Bigger harddrives can usually be used via software, manufacturers have tools for this if your OS doesn't get it.

[Baum]

jo thx,
the bios would be the problem because it won't boot at all.
And the tools are often stupid Diskmanager who are complicated and not easy to use like Diskmanager from Ontrack sys. for IBM and Seagate Drives.
Then an 80GB HD Should work without problem if or because im using an 40GB Harddrive at the moment.???
Hurray my old comp will be running as a small file server!!!!:rockout: :rockout:

[DanTheBanjoman]

120 would work fine too.

[Baum]

Thank you!!!
Your help is always much apreciated!!
I've bought a 200GB for my sister and a 120GB for my old Computer.
However the 120GB is working fine but the 200GB is recognised as a 128GB (Special Jumper to Change capacity down to 128GB).
THX Everything is working now.
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