Hard drive upgrades

[David Aikema]

I've currently got Windows 98 SE (on a 10 gig drive) installed alongside SuSE 
7.3 Pro (on an 8.4 gig drive) using a motherboard about 2 1/2 years old.  If 
I were to replace these two drives with a single 60 gig+ drive should I 
expect to encounter any problems?

I know that there existed that 8.4 gig barrier that for a while proved to be a 
problem?  Are there any similar problems with larger-sized drives?  I have a 
vague suspicion of seeing something about a 32 gig limit in my motherboard 
manual before but I searched through it and was unable to uncover any such 
information so maybe I dreamt that all up.

I seem to recall that Windows 98 has problems seeing all of a larger drive, 
but IIRC linux can get around any bios restrictions.  If the motherboard 
and/or windows were to only see part of the drive, but I were to be able to 
access all of it with linux, would it prove to be a problem to install 
windows on the first section of the drive (which it can see) and then install 
linux on the remaining portion of the drive, or would that end up getting 
detected as partition table corruption?  Also, don't some hard drives ship 
with tools that run at boottime before firing up windows that will enable 
windows to see the full capacity of the drive... could I run that alongside 
lilo?

David Aikema