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Is there an upper limit on the hard drive size XP will recognize??
bluechair said:Is there an upper limit on the hard drive size XP will recognize??
Tim said:No. The upper limit on partition size for NTFS is far larger than any
disk available today. Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fncc_fil_tvjq.mspx?mfr=true
for details.
Poprivet said:No. The upper limit on partition size for NTFS is far larger than any
disk available today. Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fncc_fil_tvjq.mspx?mfr=true
for details.
Tim said:No. The upper limit on partition size for NTFS is far larger than any
disk available today. Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fncc_fil_tvjq.mspx?mfr=true
for details.
Poprivet said:No. The upper limit on partition size for NTFS is far larger than any
disk available today. Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fncc_fil_tvjq.mspx?mfr=true
for details.
Is there an upper limit on the hard drive size XP will recognize??
It means 2 to the 32 second power minus 1. Since 2
to the 32 second power is about 4 GB, you can safely
ignore the -1.
Note that the maximum size is 2 to the 32 second
power minus 1 allocation units.
The current size
of an allocation unit is 4096 bytes. That is a lot of bytes.
Well, am still waiting like you for the answer to your question. Seen
replies on file sizes, and NTFS maximum size. But, none answered your
question.
Maximum Sizes on NTFS Volumes
In theory, the maximum NTFS volume size is 2^64 clusters minus 1
cluster. However, the maximum NTFS volume size as implemented in Windows
XP Professional is 2^32 clusters minus 1 cluster. For example, using
64-KB clusters, the maximum NTFS volume size is 256 terabytes minus 64
KB. Using the default cluster size of 4 KB, the maximum NTFS volume size
is 16 terabytes minus 4 KB.
Because partition tables on master boot record (MBR) disks support only
partition sizes up to 2 terabytes, you must use dynamic volumes to
create NTFS volumes over 2 terabytes. Windows XP Professional manages
dynamic volumes in a special database instead of in the partition table,
so dynamic volumes are not subject to the 2-terabyte physical limit
imposed by the partition table. Therefore, dynamic NTFS volumes can be
as large as the maximum volume size supported by NTFS.
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http://www.microsoft.com/germany/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx
John
Lil' Dave said:The reason I mention this is past experience with 98/98SE. Some parts of
the operating system can have problems with the hard drive exceeding 128GB
formatted size. No mention was or is mentioned with regards to that by MS.
I'm not speaking of defrag or any other filesystem or partitioning tool in
that operating system. Its been well documented in a MS 98 newsgroup.
Problem has nothing to do with bios 48 bit lba capability as that is in
place. Problem is not a partition size problem as small ones are used.
Basically, around the 128GB mark, any further file writes may result in
garbled folder names, garbled filenames, garbled file internal data. This
occurs even if all partitions are less than 128GB formatted. This occurs
even if alternate partitions are NTFS, not FAT32.
I don't expect an answer as MS still hasn't acknowledged 98/98SE's problem
regarding this. Yes, I am suggesting something similar MAY exist in XP just
not at the same total file data saved total size. I'm talking usability
here, not partition size recognition. There's no point in a super-sized
partition if the operating system can't write to its full potential without
error. Similar with a super-size hard drive with multiple partitions.
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