Maximum Hard drive for XP?

[Guest]

I was told that there Windows XP will read a max hard drive of 160 GB. Is
this true?

 

[Guest]

unpatched XP needs to be patched, then it will read much larger drives.

 

[John Q. Smith]

No.

 

[Malke]

I was told that there Windows XP will read a max hard drive of 160 GB. Is
this true?

No.


Malke

 

[Guest]

unpatched XP needs to be patched, then it will read much larger drives.

wut do u mean by patching xp and how do i do it?

 

[HEMI-Powered]

=?Utf-8?B?dGhlc2Vla2Vy?= added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

I was told that there Windows XP will read a max hard drive of
160 GB. Is this true?

The upper limit for a FAT32 partition is fairly small but NTFS can
be used well past the physical limits of any reasonable HD sold
today.

 

[HEMI-Powered]

=?Utf-8?B?dGhlc2Vla2Vy?= added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

wut do u mean by patching xp and how do i do it?

wut langwage is this? I dont have my xp patched and it recognizes
any size HD I have ever plugged into it's SATA and IDE connection
and its USB slots, well above 160 gig

 

[Lil' Dave]

Depends what you mean in regarding the size.
Some are referencing pre-existing partitions regarding you question.
Some are referencing the actual capacity of the physical hard drive that may
be void of partitions.
Some are assuming XP w/SP1 or SP2. And one answer is assuming original XP.
Some are assuming a 48 bit lba bios.
--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.

 

[Guest]

Depends what you mean in regarding the size.
Some are referencing pre-existing partitions regarding you question.
Some are referencing the actual capacity of the physical hard drive that may
be void of partitions.
Some are assuming XP w/SP1 or SP2. And one answer is assuming original XP.
Some are assuming a 48 bit lba bios.
--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.

I'm was going to build a computer of my own with a standard 750 GB internal
hard drive untill someone told my that the max amount of hard drive space
that XP reads is 160 GB. So i wanted to know if what he said was true.

 

[Guest]

sorry bout that, I was thinking of w2k.

=?Utf-8?B?dGhlc2Vla2Vy?= added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

wut langwage is this? I dont have my xp patched and it recognizes
any size HD I have ever plugged into it's SATA and IDE connection
and its USB slots, well above 160 gig

 

[Tim Slattery]

=?Utf-8?B?dGhlc2Vla2Vy?= added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...


The upper limit for a FAT32 partition is fairly small

No, FAT32 can handle partitions into the terabytes. That doesn't mean
that it's a good idea to use FAT32 for huge partitions. Since NTFS is
available in WinXP, and is a *far* better choice for huge partitions,
XP won't create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. But if you've used
something else (Win98's FDISK or a third-party partition manager) to
create a gigantic FAT32 partition, WinXP will happily use it.

but NTFS can be used well past the physical limits of any reasonable HD sold
today.

Very true.

 

[Poprivet]

I was told that there Windows XP will read a max hard drive of 160
GB. Is this true?

NO it is not true. My XP with SP2 is handling two 320 Gigs and a 500 Gig
hard drive very neatly and uses every bit of space. LBA mode is necesary in
the BIOS, as are the Service Packs for an up to date, stable system.

Whoever told you that is confused; send them back to school.

Pop`

 

[Unknown]

NO!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I was told that there Windows XP will read a max hard drive of 160 GB. Is
this true?

No. You were told wrong. It is completely false.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm was going to build a computer of my own with a standard 750 GB internal
hard drive untill someone told my that the max amount of hard drive space
that XP reads is 160 GB. So i wanted to know if what he said was true.

As numbers of people, including me, have told you, it is completely
false.

 

[Lil' Dave]

A recent motherboard with accompanying 48 lba bios is not a problem. You
need SP1 or SP2 XP.

--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.