maximum hard drive and partition under XP

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David B.

There isn't a drive available that is too large for XP to partition.
 
I am running XP pro with one 80 gig hard drive with one
partition currently.

I need to add another hard drive. How big can I get,
under one partition using XP pro?

thanks
 
The XP will support any harddrive size available. However, there are a few
caveats:

1. If you want to use a harddrive larger than 137GB make sure your
motherboard bios supports 48 bit lba addressing. All new motherboards does.
2. You need WinXP SP1 installed for harddrives larger than 137.5 GB

Here are some articles:

Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp


WDC articles
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_cat_lvl1=81

Maxtor

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?
 
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