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Originally posted by arch13
maxtor has a program for their hard drives called maxblast that can install a soft bios on the boot partition to override bios limitations on hard drive size. I wouldn't recommend trying the program with other manufactureres devices, but i've seen it work many a time for maxtor oem and white label drives off pricewatch.
It will support anything up to 120gb and 7200rpm drives as well as udma 4 for most motherboards.
Just make sure your os can support the drive and this soft bios can be pretty successsfull at bypassing hardware limits.
It's actually one of the reasons i'm loyal to maxtor, and i'm rarley loyal to anyone. These babies just never fail in the graphic rendering business, unlike the four WD's one non-graphic computer went through at my house in two years.
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AGREED IN SPADES! I've got a Maxtor HD (or two) in every box I own, except my server; it's got a 9Gb Seagate SCSI drive I got REAL cheap; it also sounds like an F-18 winding up at boot time. I wasn't aware that MAX blast had that capability, but I never had a BIOS linitation problem either.