There is I believe a theoretical possibility of data lose/corruption.
Incidentally, this also applies if a large drive is formated to 137gb, then
large Lba is enabled and then in the subsequent free space another partition
is created.
(Read this on some Win tech paper)

<sarmadgilani@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Oops, sorry.. I've got SP2. So I know that Windows can support the
> drive just fine, but I want to make sure that my BIOS limitations won't
> hurt me.
>
> I would think that Windows doesn't care that the BIOS only reports 137
> GB, since it correctly detected the whole drive. But I'm not sure about
> data loss or corruption in the future... I would think that BIOS is
> irrelevant in this case?
>