Windows 2000 and big-hard-drive weird problem

[Eric Gisin]

For a hard drive global size, yes. Not not for a partition size.

Hard drives don't know about partitions, the OS does.

 

[Fabien LE LEZ]

Hard drives don't know about partitions, the OS does.

So, to summarize: you have a have a 48-bit-LBA-compatible hardware
(and BIOS) to have a hard drive bigger than ~137 GB, and a compatible
OS to have a partition bigger than 128 GB. Right?

 

[Rod Speed]

Eric Gisin (e-mail address removed) wrote

So, to summarize: you have a have a 48-bit-LBA-compatible hardware
(and BIOS) to have a hard drive bigger than ~137 GB, and a compatible
OS to have a partition bigger than 128 GB. Right?

Wrong, the problem is with the size of the physical drive, not the size of the partition.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

In a legal document where size has importance, it's best to avoid
confusion and talk about bytes only.

Or just use the correct notations.

Anyway, I don't know any meaning of "GB"

That's your problem since the rest of us does (know).

that makes "137 GB" a technical limit.

It does.

The right figure is either 128
GiB

or 137.438953472.

137,438,953,472 bytes which in practical terms is 137GB, rounded.