Re: Questions about new HD

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From: Jan Alter
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:00

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Hi,
   Chances are your bios will be able to read drives up to 128 gb if it's
only 6 months old. There should be no problem. Unless you're really into
high structure I would leave it as one partition, unless of course you
intend to run more than one OS.

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Jan Alter
bearpuf@netreach.net
Kevin <terragen@home.com> wrote in message
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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: "Jan Alter" <bearpuf@netreach.net>
Subject: Re: Questions about new HD
Date: 2000/08/21
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