Re: Disk Drive size limitations

From: null (null_at_planetzero.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:15:22 -0400

Mark wrote:
> I was told that Windows XP has a 2 TB size limitation is this true and is
> there any way to over come this

Not true. An NTFS volume can be up to 256 TB minus 64K. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

However, to use volumes larger than 2 TB on MBR disks, you'd need to use
dynamic volumes. See the article referenced above. 

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