BIOS version A03 will support hard drives larger than 137gigs. You will also need to be using Windows XP with at least SP1 installed or Windows 2000 with at least SP3 installed to use a hard drive that large. If you have Windows XP installed then just attach the drive as a slave to your present one and use Windows Disk Management to partition and format the new drive.
Click here for a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on how to use Disk Management.
Thanks - I have XP home edition with SP2 installed and still have some problems. Couldn't see the drive in disk management until I used Seagates wizzard program to make a 90GB partition. Now it appears in management with the 90GB partition formatted and the 210GB unused.
I will take another stab at it tonight through disk management.
Thanks again for the BIOS info - I will hold off the BIOS update
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Thanks - I have XP home edition with SP2 installed and still have some problems. Couldn't see the drive in disk management until I used Seagates wizzard program to make a 90GB partition. Now it appears in management with the 90GB partition formatted and the 210GB unused.
I will take another stab at it tonight through disk management.
Thanks again for the BIOS info - I will hold off the BIOS update