Hard drive size?

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Dave

Currently I have a 120gb C: drive and a 80gb D: drive. Everything is
working fine. I'm thinking about replacing the 80gb drive with a larger
one. What are the hard drive size limitations of XP? What other size
limitations might I run into?
 
Provided you have SP1 and your motherboard supports 48bit drives, the
largest drive on the market today is 400gb... the Hitachi Deskstar (the old
IBM Deskstar range - Hitachi purchased IBM's hard drive business last year).

XP will support nearly every drive on the market.... but does the rest of
your hardware??

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Thanks. Any suggestion on how to verify whether the motherboard will
support it? I read thru the motherboard user manual and it doesn't mention
it at all.
 
Look at the BIOS, does it have support for 48 bit
addressing?
See the BIOS update lists on the mfg'r web pages.


| Thanks. Any suggestion on how to verify whether the
motherboard will
| support it? I read thru the motherboard user manual and
it doesn't mention
| it at all.
|
message
| | > Provided you have SP1 and your motherboard supports
48bit drives, the
| > largest drive on the market today is 400gb... the
Hitachi Deskstar (the
| old
| > IBM Deskstar range - Hitachi purchased IBM's hard drive
business last
| year).
| >
| > XP will support nearly every drive on the market.... but
does the rest of
| > your hardware??
| >
| > Cari
| > www.coribright.com
| >
| > | > > Currently I have a 120gb C: drive and a 80gb D: drive.
Everything is
| > > working fine. I'm thinking about replacing the 80gb
drive with a
| larger
| > > one. What are the hard drive size limitations of XP?
What other size
| > > limitations might I run into?
| > >
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|
 
You will need to know if your motherboard can use 48bit LBA drive
configurations. Check with the motherboard manufacturer and/or post into
the newsgroup that is for your motherboard manufacturer.

Also, you can buy add-on IDE or SATA card which completely accesses the
drive capacity.

Y.
 
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