>>>4. When the system was up and running, only 32gb of the 60gb hard drive were available. I only had 8gb until I changed the jumpers on the drive to the documentation specifications to "limit" the availble space which allowed 32, but is that all I'm going to be able to get? Is this a limitation of the bios? BTW, I have flashed the PC bios with the most recent version with no change.
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>>My brother recently had this problem, fortunately a BIOS upgrade fixed his problem, but Maxtor recommended the following if the upgrade failed.
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>>http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/software/maxblast/default.htm
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>Thanks Len...
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>I had trouble loading the MaxBlast software that came with the drive, but once I get it bootable I'll try it again. I didn't realize it might be able to handle the capacity issue.
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>Renoir

I don't have access to our e-mails re. the problem at the moment. But from memory using the MaxBlast s/w to resolve the size issue involved manually setting the BIOS to ignore the drive & then using the installation s/w so that the operating system saw the full sized drive - this means that it is not possible to boot from that drive. So you couldn't put the OS on that drive as per 5) in your original post.

(It may be worth checking any documentation that comes with MaxBlast, the BIOS upgrade did the trick for my brother, so we didn't look seriously at the s/w solution)