Once Windows has been booted and is running, the BIOS is irrelevant
when Windows accesses the hard drives.

On 4 Jan 2006 10:00:16 -0800, sarmadgilani@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've got an old MSI Gateway-OEM motherboard (MS-6330) that doesn't
>support 48-bit LBA with its latest BIOS revision, so my Western Digital
>250GB drive shows up as 137GB in BIOS, as expected.
>
>But, in Windows, Disk Management shows it as the full 232 GB, and I'm
>able to create >137GB partitions, format, and use them.
>
>Is this safe to use without messing with drive overlays? I'm not going
>to boot from the drive, it'll be used for storage only.
>
>Thanks!