K7N2 Delta2 Platinum - How big a hard drive will it take?

K7N2 Delta2 Platinum - MS-6570E
I would like to fit a new hard drive my current one is 120GB but its getting full I also have a 40GB second drive too.
Can anyone tell me whats the biggest drive the board will take and are there any makes of drives that work well (and fast) with this board?
Thanks
Sorry I should have said I don't know how to set up a SATA hard drive so I will be buying a serial ATA hard drive

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SATA is not hard to set up, although there is an extra step involved with loading OS to it and needs to be XP maybe SP2.
SATA drives are not a problem with the K7N2 Delta2, as single SATA drives are used as Native IDE devices, so there are no extra steps involved, and you do not need to press F6 during Windows Setup. Its exactly the same as installing Windows onto a IDE drive.

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