what is the biggest drive that can be put on a asus p4p800 deluxe motherboard
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bailojustin
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Any 32-bit system (even one as new as Windows 7) has trouble booting into a drive with a capacity over 2.19 TB, but they can work around that limitation for a secondary internal drive. XP can only use these large drives as external drives with special USB firmware that either presents it as a single drive using larger sector sizes or as more than one smaller drives to the host (this is how Seagate’s 3 TB external drive works) — or using an internal HBA card, which does basically the same thing.
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Yep it is, it does in fact have to do with the format type laid down on the hard drive NTFS.
The NTFS file format found in windows 7 be it a 32bit or 64bit version of the os running.
Can only map or allocate a drive size in capacity or storage space of , or close to 2GB of drive size.
Your only other way if you wish to fit a physical drive with a higher capacity is to partition the drive in question into multiple partitions of a set size to ensure you can use all of it`s capacity.
Ie setting a 4GB drive in capacity and splitting it to two partitions of 2GB in size.
Meaning on the one physical drive when presented in windows you will have a drive C: and D: for example, each displaying 2GB of storage capacity, or close to it after formatting.
The NTFS file format found in windows 7 be it a 32bit or 64bit version of the os running.
Can only map or allocate a drive size in capacity or storage space of , or close to 2GB of drive size.
Your only other way if you wish to fit a physical drive with a higher capacity is to partition the drive in question into multiple partitions of a set size to ensure you can use all of it`s capacity.
Ie setting a 4GB drive in capacity and splitting it to two partitions of 2GB in size.
Meaning on the one physical drive when presented in windows you will have a drive C: and D: for example, each displaying 2GB of storage capacity, or close to it after formatting.
You can use whatever size drive you want for storage it just needs to use GPT. NTFS does not have a 2TB limit. It has a cluster limit which happens to work out to 2TB if you use the default cluster size. There is no reason to do that though it can easily support much larger.
The only issue is you can't boot of a GPT drive because your system is too old.
The only issue is you can't boot of a GPT drive because your system is too old.
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No, it isn't an issue of the file system drive formatting NTFS, Fat 32 etc. . It is the partition type. Drive management. Partition as GPT, Not MBR as MBR has a limit of 2 TBS. and ya can use any drive size as a storage drive with 7. Use NTFS as that is Windows. The sector size isn't important. Not the same as a systems,(C), drive. Ya can't use GPT easily for a systems drive with 7. Not really that confusing.
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