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02-17-2004, 04:20 PM
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Maximum capacities
Hi, I need to know the maximum hard drive sizes that
Windows 98 will take windows me will take windows 2000 will take and windows xp will take. Or does it all depend on the file system? |
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02-17-2004, 04:30 PM
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The Hard drive size limitation is usually a function of BIOS support (which could then be circumvented by BIOS upgrades or drive overlay programs) whereas partition size limitation is a function of the file system.
For example for partition limitations: FAT (DOS/Win95) had a limitation of 2GB VFAT (Win3xx, on early Win95 - OSR1) had a limitation of 4GB FAT32 (win95 OSR2 and later) had a max limitation of 4TB NTFS I believe allows you to go to ~256TB (someone will of course correct me if I am wrong). Addendum: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...c_fil_tdrn.asp Last edited by Statica; 02-17-2004 at 04:35 PM. |
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02-17-2004, 06:27 PM
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Ok, another question, the limit for the IDE interface is 144 petabytes, would it be the same for a recent BIOS?
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