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do the cold, dark days of winter have you dreaming of tropical beaches, sunny deserts, and the inside of your PC? You read right. The climate inside your com- puter can rival that of Death Valley in the summer, and triple-digit temperatures are bad news for your hardware. | PC WORLD TECHNOLOGY ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST PC WORLD MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS SPECIAL BONUS COLLECTION J Power GuBde t@ Hard Drive Upgrades Copyright 2002 PC World Communications Inc. All rights reserved. The trademark PC World is owned by International Data Group and used under license by PC World Communications Inc. Printed in the United States. You must have permission before reproducing any material from PC World. Direct inquiries to permissions@. HARDWARE TIPS KIRK STEERS Find the Perfect Hard Disk for Your PC MP3 collections gargantuan software programs and multimegabyte video files have left PC owners scrambling for free storage space. The best solution for most PC users is to buy and install a new hard disk. Fortunately now is a great time to buy Drives are bigger faster and cheaper than ever. For more on the recent crop of drives see Livin Large at www. reviews march2001 large. But not every PC can accommodate today s ATA EIDE hard drives. Some drives may have more storage capacity than your PC can recognize some may be too fast for your system and some may not fit in your PC s case. Before you buy the latest drive make sure your PC can use it. Hard disks with doubledigit-gigabyte capacities are no problem for most PCs purchased in the last three years. But older systems have drive-capacity limitations. Here are common size limits and how you can get around them. Systems with a BIOS date before 1998 typically don t support drives with capacities greater than . If your BIOS doesn t support large-capacity FIGURE 1 SEE DRIVE capacity as a graph in My Computer. graph shows the drive s capacity the storage space in use and the amount available see FIGURE 1 . or Some PCs manufactured before 1998 have BlOSs that limit disks to one of these two capacities. To remedy this either get a BIOS upgrade or buy a new disk controller card. 2GB Any hard drive using the FAT16 file system can recognize only up to 2GB. .