I am installing from scratch. A cold boot into BIOS and no hard drive is shown. The system is rather old, after I posted the drive being to large did cross my mind. I think your right about the BIOS not supporting a large drive. I'll have to find a much smaller drive and see if I have any issues.
I have an older hp pavillion 7966, the orginal hard drive died a few days ago. I also plugged the hard drive into another system and there is no getting any data from it. (Nothing important, so its ok.) So i bought a new hard drive for it and I have a few copies of xp from other builds. So...
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