The operant question is: does your bios support the drive size? If it does, then you have no problems. For a boot loading program to avoid this would require a much larger program. You would end up with something along the line of a disk translation program. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.