If this is going to be a secondary drive then you should be fine since Linux doesn't care and there are free utilities for older version of windows that can't already handle it. If this is going to replace your drive then you could probably easily get around this by formating the drive carefully. Put the /boot partition first (20MB just for the hell of it) and format around that. Windows will reside in the <8GB level (or the <30GB level) and linux can be installed wherever. What are your plans? Replace your primary drive or use it as a big a** storage drive? sim > I have a Asus P5A motherboard (version 1005) with an Award BIOS > (version > 4.51PG) and I'd like to put a larger hard-drive in it... maybe one of > those > 100GB Western Digital drives. The question is, how big a HD will it > support? I went to the Award website and it said, "...it's impossible > to > know how large a disk drive your system can support without actually > testing > it...". Well, that really sux. Hardware/firmware is soooo stupid > sometimes. Can anyone suggest a better solution? >