Hard Drive Size

From: David Lee (news_at_davidlee.me.uk)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:55:56 GMT

Hi,

I was about to order a new 250Gb USB Ext Hard Drive to use for backup's,
archive files, etc but heard somewhere that there is a limit on the size of
hard drive acceptable to XP.

Is that the case?

I was also intending to partition it anyway. Would that help if there was a
problem?

Cheers.

David

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