Re: large hard drive questions

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djc wrote:
I just picked up a 250 GB hard drive that is to go into a used computer
(about 3 years old I think). I have not opened it yet. I recall from when I
dealt with pc hardware some years ago that there were limits as to how large
of a hard drive your hardware and operating system could support. I recall
the old 2GB fat partition limit, then I beleive there was something at 8GB,
and then some higher ones... 127GB maybe? don't know for sure. Thats the
reason for the post.

I want to use this 250 GB EIDE (ATA 133) hd as the only drive in this used
computer.

1) what are the chances of a 3 year old BIOS supporting this drive?

Good. Even many older BIOSes will, if you update them. And there are
always ultra133 controller cards to overcome limits like this.

2) how large of a drive will windows xp sp2 with NTFS support?

It's in the terabyte range. Is sp2 integrated with this disk? Or not?
If it doesn't come with at least SP1, you'll have to slipstream the
disk if you want 1 big partition.


2a) how about the largest single partition size supported by xp sp2 with
NTFS?


It's in the terabyte range.

I was planning on creating to partitions. One about 40 GB for the operating
system and the other 210GB for a video app that requires lots of storage.

Should be fine.


any input would be greatly appreciated. I'm real out of date when it comes
to this stuff and I don't have time to google today... (and when I do I will
probably get wrapped up in all the things I missed and I really don't have
time to do that right now! hehe)

.

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