on hard drive question

[rb]

What tells you how big a hard drive your computer will let you install? Is
it the motherboard?

 

[1PW]

What tells you how big a hard drive your computer will let you install? Is
it the motherboard?

Try Googling "Hard Disk Drives Capacity Limits".

Pete

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

What tells you how big a hard drive your computer will let you install? Is
it the motherboard?

You need two things to support a drive over 137GB:

1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA
(or alternatively, an add-in controller card that does).

2. At least SP1 of Windows XP.

 

[rb]

Thanks.