my first question since joining forum..i may be too cautious. appreciate any advice, guidance with this. have a new 1tb hitachi hdd i plan to install as a 2nd drive for storage, no os. problems i have read about concerning tb drives include drive not being recognized, only part of the drives capacity being shown and accessable, no letter on the drive, will not format, trouble partitioning and some others i cannot recall. some of these caution that some versions of bios will not handle the tb sized drives. my machine currently has a 250gb sata hdd, windows xp sp2 media center, intel south lake mob lga775 socket, supports 4 sata drives, pentium4 3.40ghz hyperthreading, what should i take a look at before trying to install this hdd that will help insure a smooth installation? thanks, marvinw3