In message , Paul
writes:
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support. Before that, there were some IDE interfaces that were limited
to 137GB drives. So 120GB was the largest drive that was recommended at the
time.
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And a _few_ drives in the _slightly_ larger range at the time - such as
160, so yours may have it - could be jumpered to appear as (I think)
137, i. e. make the upper part invisible - to get round that, or at
least to stop that causing problems.

(Incidentally, someone said "no problem, I'll use 40 - 60 - 60" - that
would have the third partition "spanning" the 137 limit, which if I
understood Paul's explanation could trash things if you've got one of
the causes of the limit. But find out if you _have_ got that limit
before worrying - it was only some motherboards. [And IIRR for some of
those, a BIOS patch was available?])
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