32GB Limit

Over Thanksgiving, a friend is going to take a new hard drive to install into his elderly father's computer. Friend is not very technically adept. I maintain the computer by logging into with pcAnywhere. How can I tell whether the computer BIOS limits hard drive size to 8GB or 32GB. Because of the age of the computer, I'm sure it is not over 32GB.
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