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by pablo__leal

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Pentium II, 500Mhz, 128 Ram, Micro Star MS 6119 mother board, running Windows XP Pro. The bios will not detect the WD 40 Gig Hard drive either as a master or slave. It has no problem detecting the smaller drive 2.1 Gig or 5 Gig. The drive has been checked, OK. Might there be a problem with the bios, when it boots it shows Award 1993-1998, something like that. Went to Micro Star but there no support for that MB anymore.

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by gralfus

On older boards it is usually the BIOS that limits recognition of drives larger than a certain size (varies depending on the BIOS).
Either find a BIOS for that board that will allow the drives to be recognized, or use a controller card, like a Promise card, to allow the card to be recognized.
Here is the MSI site for BIOS, though I didn't see your model:
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/bios_result.asp

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