bacl to basics for me.....

[rb]

Back to basics for me....... My thoughts are confused, so need some help
getting it straight:

I have an old AM TECH pc with 10gb hard drive. I'd like to put a 250gb
hard drive in it.

What I need is a clean boot to a blank C: drive.

I also have good backup images on a usb external hard drive. These things
are full images, so that where windows will come on C: drive from.

What happens when I put a 250gb hard drive in my pc? Does BIOS recognize it
and let me see most of it?

I know the old thing about Windows is you must have 48bit (ATAPI.SYS) for it
to recognize anything over 137gb. However, windows won't be a part of
this. It will just be bios.

So, what do I need to do to put the 250gb drive in????

[Peck]

I think if you've formatted the 250gb and the jumpers are set correctly,
just hook it up and it should be recognized by the bios and it will boot
you to a C: prompt. The rub is if the board/bios will recognize the
250gb size. Some older boards don't. I THINK. Anyway, just hook it up
and see what happens.