I woud change it but the box is like burried under a couple other pcs and a monitor and would just be a big hassle. It has worked on it before. I just removed a working version of gentoo from it but was filled with a bunch of unneeded crap so i just decieded would be best to wipe it clean. as far as it showing up in the bios i dont think so. its got a very plain bios. the drive works fine in knoppix. in fact im chrooted into that drive now.