I have got a harddrive from a college. It is 17,2 GB, and after some small install-problem,s it works well. But it reports only 8,2 GB. Where is the rest. I have run Partition Magig,but still only 8,5 GB. Can it be the BIOS that does not supprt large harddrives?

it probly is the reason

"large harddrives" Means drives greater than 32gb, so no, that is not the problem. The problem is likely related to cluster size. Using 4kb clusters you are limited, mathematically to 8gb. Either have Partition magic create the single drive using 16kb clusters or create 3 partitions using the current 4kb clusters. The following tables lists the default cluster sizes used by the FAT32 file system. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192322 Partition size Cluster size ----------- 512 MB to 8,191 MB 4 KB 8,192 MB to 16,383 MB 8 KB 16,384 MB to 32,767 MB 16 KB Larger than 32,768 MB 32 KB Bryan