WinXP and Hard Drive Capacity

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From: bhoenig (_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:55:21 -0500

I'm considering upgrading my second physical hard drive from 80 Gigs to
250 Gigs (for video-editing, etc). Before I do that I want to make sure
that WinXP will have no problems recognizing the entire capacity of the
new drive. A few questions:

1. I presently have 2 partitions on the 80 Gig drive (FAT32, set-up by
Partition Magic). I want to use DriveImage 2002 to copy data from the
old drive to the new. Will this work, or is 250 Gigs too much?

2. Will WinXP have any problems recognizing a 250 Gig drive? (I have
XP Pro-SP1).

3. I have Goback installed onto my system, but I don't have it
monitoring this particular drive. Can I safely do the upgrade without
disabling Goback first?

Thanks!

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