Max HDD size Supported by XP Pro

[JGM]

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Hi All,

I just installed a new 200 GB Maxtor IDE into a three year old Dell Optiplex GX150. The BIOS recognizes the HDD properly (the BIOS is up to the latest rev), but when I performed a clean install of XP pro, XP only recognized the disk as 130 GB.

Does XP have a partition size limit?
Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[Guest]

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I think it only recognises up to 137Gb unless you install
the service pack. Then it should see the whole drive.

Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

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Check your motherboard or computer manufacturer's User's Guide
and find how large a hard drive your motherboard is designed to support.

Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316505

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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"JGM" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
news:A1E9FD10-5A90-43AC-A9C5-899266704BC7@microsoft.com...

| Hi All,
|
| I just installed a new 200 GB Maxtor IDE into a three year old Dell Optiplex GX150. The BIOS recognizes the
HDD properly (the BIOS is up to the latest rev), but when I performed a clean install of XP pro, XP only
recognized the disk as 130 GB.
|
| Does XP have a partition size limit?
| Thanks in advance for the help!
|
|

 

[Guest]

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <mrxp2004@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:

> Check your motherboard or computer manufacturer's User's Guide
> and find how large a hard drive your motherboard is designed
> to support.
>
> Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316505
>
> How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for
> ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&
> Product=winxp


In addition, XP can only create partitons of a certain size (ISTR
that FAT32 partitions can only be 32 GB) but it will work with
larger FAT32 partitions.