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OldDummy
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« on: September 28, 2007, 01:54:18 PM »
How big a disc does the original WinXP recognize ?

I'm getting a 200Gb drive and don't know if my copy can handle that.


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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 04:18:54 PM »
If you don't have any backwards compatability issues, running W98, ReactOS or Linux for instance - you should probably consider formatting NTFS which has a maximum capacity of 16 Exabytes.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 05:46:27 PM »
Quote from: "Connor" date="1191010734"
If you don't have any backwards compatability issues, running W98, ReactOS or Linux for instance - you should probably consider formatting NTFS which has a maximum capacity of 16 Exabytes.

Yes, thanks for the input. Does the original WinXP disc have a limitation of ~150G for installs. For some reason I thought that.

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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2007, 06:11:53 PM »
Its possible it might for an Upgrade Install, but can't see it myself for a clean one.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2007, 11:02:52 PM »
can't remeber if it's SP1 or SP2 that fixes it but the original no service pack Windows XP can I think only see like 136GB of the drive until you load a service pack or IDE driver to fix it.

If the disc already has SP2 integrated, then you're fine.
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2007, 11:34:32 PM »
Ahh...That rings a bell.

Thanks for the heads up.

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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2007, 10:07:14 AM »
Yeah, just use a SP2-integrated CD to be on the safe side...
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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2007, 04:21:27 PM »
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=enable+48-bit+LBA+Windows+XP&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013
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« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2007, 05:26:16 PM »
Intuit...you da man. Where did you come up with THAT.

Thank You one and all.

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