Hard drive size?

[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?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

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

 

[Dave]

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.

 

[Jim Macklin]

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?
| > >
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Yves Leclerc]

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.