- Whats the biggest...
- Posted by Anonymoose on March 13th, 2005
....harddrive win xp pro (SP2) will handle without having to install any type
of 'drive overlay' crap? thanks.
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- Posted by PJB on March 13th, 2005
"Anonymoose" <none@this.time> wrote in message
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I'm running a 300GB Maxtor 10 here, without drive overlay crap ;-)
- Posted by philo on March 13th, 2005
"Anonymoose" <none@this.time> wrote in message
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it has nothing to do with XP
it's all up to the bios on your motherboard and what it can handle
- Posted by Ron Martell on March 14th, 2005
"Anonymoose" <none@this.time> wrote:
With Service Pack 2 installed for XP the limit is whatever your
motherboard will support or whatever is the largest available.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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- Posted by Keme on March 15th, 2005
Anonymoose wrote:
can't have single files larger than 4 GB. You can split larger disks
into several partitions.
-With NTFS, you could handle disks up to 2.2 TB. File size limited only
by available space.
The file system can support larger disks (up to 16 Exabyte I think, and
that's a lot) but win XP is limited by the fact that it uses 32 bit code
(even in its 64 bit versions, reportedly)
Source:
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm
