Questions about new HD

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From: Kevin
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:00

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I am purchasing a new Maxtor 60GB hard drive for my computer. It is farily
new (6 months) P3 550Mhz and so the bios should support the largest possible
drives... I was wondering if there was anything else I should know.. I'm not
a big hard drive person, but isn't there some rule that any drive over 8gb
you have to create partitions of 8 gigs?
so for my new 60gb drive do i have to have 7 8gb partitions (and 1 4gb)?? or
can i run the whole drive as 60 gigs? it will be running as a new primary
drive with my old one as the slave.
Is there anything special I should know about getting a drive this big?
any help or hints are appreciated.. thanks!

Kevin

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From: "Kevin" <terragen@home.com>
Subject: Questions about new HD
Date: 2000/08/20
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