Drives sizes in XP
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Drives sizes in XP
I heard somewhere that WinXP doesn't support hard drives larger than 130Gb. Is that true?
Just need to make sure before I mess anything up with anything.
Just need to make sure before I mess anything up with anything.
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Here's the info your looking for, and then some.
NTFS
Recommended minimum volume size is approximately 10 megabytes (MB).
Volumes much larger than 2 terabytes (TB) are possible.
FAT32
Volumes from 512 MB to 2 TB.
In Windows XP, you can format a FAT32 volume up to 32 GB only.
Does not support domains.
Maximum file size is 4GB.
FAT(16)
Volumes from floppy disk size up to 4 gigabytes (GB).
Does not support domains
Maximum file size is 2GB.
NTFS
Recommended minimum volume size is approximately 10 megabytes (MB).
Volumes much larger than 2 terabytes (TB) are possible.
FAT32
Volumes from 512 MB to 2 TB.
In Windows XP, you can format a FAT32 volume up to 32 GB only.
Does not support domains.
Maximum file size is 4GB.
FAT(16)
Volumes from floppy disk size up to 4 gigabytes (GB).
Does not support domains
Maximum file size is 2GB.
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Actually, I'd like to throw in my little bit of info because I encountered a problem recently when installing XP on a new computer with a large hard drive.
I was building a computer with an i865 chipset and one of the hdd's was a Western Digital 2500JB 250gig. I was using Win XP Pro Corp because I couldn't find my SP1 cd. Well, when I got to the point of choosing the hard drive, I saw that it recognized the 250gig as only 131,xxx,xxx?!?! I went ahead and installed anyways. Went into my computer and there it was...127gigs. I was like "wtf?!" I didn't want to reinstall because by the time I realized this, I had already installed some programs. I thought it was the mobo's old BIOS...nope wasn't that. I thought XP wasn't supporting the drive size, confirmed from multiple friends that it wasn't that either.
I went BACK into Windows XP setup and tried to format the drive as a 250 but it kept seeing it as small, checked CMOS and it saw it as a 250. So I figured XP didn't know what was going on, but I was told firmly "yes, it will support your drive" like I assumed it should've in the first place.
Well, 2 days later after thinking hard and trying weird stuff, it popped in my head,where have I messed with hard drives before...MANAGE!!! So I went back to XP setup, DELETED the partition and exited out of setup. I booted Windows back up, right clicked on my computer, hit manage, and saw the hard drive right there. WELL...it was seeing it as a 250 so I got all excited! Just did the format from within XP and there that bad boy was, 250gig'er NOW ACTIVE!
I guess when installing, XP Pro Corp only supports 127 :/
Not sure how XP Pro w/ SP1 works with fresh installs and formatting large hard drives, but it doesn't matter because you can get it sorted out within XP anyways.
I was building a computer with an i865 chipset and one of the hdd's was a Western Digital 2500JB 250gig. I was using Win XP Pro Corp because I couldn't find my SP1 cd. Well, when I got to the point of choosing the hard drive, I saw that it recognized the 250gig as only 131,xxx,xxx?!?! I went ahead and installed anyways. Went into my computer and there it was...127gigs. I was like "wtf?!" I didn't want to reinstall because by the time I realized this, I had already installed some programs. I thought it was the mobo's old BIOS...nope wasn't that. I thought XP wasn't supporting the drive size, confirmed from multiple friends that it wasn't that either.
I went BACK into Windows XP setup and tried to format the drive as a 250 but it kept seeing it as small, checked CMOS and it saw it as a 250. So I figured XP didn't know what was going on, but I was told firmly "yes, it will support your drive" like I assumed it should've in the first place.
Well, 2 days later after thinking hard and trying weird stuff, it popped in my head,where have I messed with hard drives before...MANAGE!!! So I went back to XP setup, DELETED the partition and exited out of setup. I booted Windows back up, right clicked on my computer, hit manage, and saw the hard drive right there. WELL...it was seeing it as a 250 so I got all excited! Just did the format from within XP and there that bad boy was, 250gig'er NOW ACTIVE!
I guess when installing, XP Pro Corp only supports 127 :/
Not sure how XP Pro w/ SP1 works with fresh installs and formatting large hard drives, but it doesn't matter because you can get it sorted out within XP anyways.
Wasn't that bg of a problem, it's just because I had the new drive in there when I was installing XP fresh. There wouldn't have BEEN a problem had I installed the hdd AFTER I installed XP :/ Not like there was a problem, just one of those simple little things that can really bug the crap out of you hehe.
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