How big of a Hard drive can i use with xp pro

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Most of us learned punctuation in grade school. This is
not a trivial point when someone is trying to understand
what your question / problem is . . .

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig
hard drive on it as
>one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with
the windows cd and
>sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks
Greg
>.
>

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Hi,

From what I have heard, you could use a Terabyte drive with XP Pro. Just
make sure your motherboard bios supports the large drives.

Jeff

"Greg" <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig hard drive on it
>as
> one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with the windows cd and
> sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks Greg

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"jeffrey" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From what I have heard, you could use a Terabyte drive with XP Pro. Just
> make sure your motherboard bios supports the large drives.
>
> Jeff
>
> "Greg" <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4F82AE8A-2197-440C-BBD3-433DD74A0DA8@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig hard drive on it
> >as
> > one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with the windows cd and
> > sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks Greg
>
>
From the Western Digital web site:
48-bit LBA support is necessary for drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary).
The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit
LBA support in Windows 2000/XP:

* Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) must be installed for Windows XP
versions prior to August 2002. For information about SP1, see Microsoft
Article 322389.

* The system must have a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System
(BIOS) installed. This includes EIDE controller card BIOSs.

* You must enable the support in the Windows registry.

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Most learned to spell also, try 'anonymous' instead of 'Unanimous' - as you
used in your sig.
Try constructive instead of destructive help & advice, otherwise butt out.
Anyway, Greg did use punctuation at the very end ( even though he did
accidently put a space before it).

Also consider your own reply - two spaces between 'school & This' ??
Ending your post with a preposition?? Tut, tut.
Surely "trying to understand your question / problem . . . " is a much
better way of expressing yourself correctly.

--

johnf

> Most of us learned punctuation in grade school. This is
> not a trivial point when someone is trying to understand
> what your question / problem is . . .
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig hard drive on
>>it as one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with the
>>windows cd and sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks
>>Greg .

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"johnf" wrote:

> Most learned to spell also, try 'anonymous' instead of 'Unanimous' - as you
> used in your sig.
> Try constructive instead of destructive help & advice, otherwise butt out.
> Anyway, Greg did use punctuation at the very end ( even though he did
> accidently put a space before it).
>
> Also consider your own reply - two spaces between 'school & This' ??
> Ending your post with a preposition?? Tut, tut.
> Surely "trying to understand your question / problem . . . " is a much
> better way of expressing yourself correctly.
>
> --
>
> johnf
>
> > Most of us learned punctuation in grade school. This is
> > not a trivial point when someone is trying to understand
> > what your question / problem is . . .
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig hard drive on
> >>it as one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with the
> >>windows cd and sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks
> >>Greg .
>
>
>

;-)

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Hi John,

It's certainly better to give constructive advice, but maybe advice on the
right way to write a message is useful. If AJ had written in caps, lots of
us would be all over him.

By the way, I was taught in school to put two spaces after after a period.
I wonder what the grammar checker in Microsoft Word would think of that?
Also, "is" is not a preposition, but a verb, although your way of writing
the sentence is certainly better.

Good luck, Dan




"johnf" <john_f@bigREMOVEpond.net.au> wrote in message
news fGWsks0EHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Most learned to spell also, try 'anonymous' instead of 'Unanimous' - as
you
> used in your sig.
> Try constructive instead of destructive help & advice, otherwise butt
out.
> Anyway, Greg did use punctuation at the very end ( even though he did
> accidently put a space before it).
>
> Also consider your own reply - two spaces between 'school & This' ??
> Ending your post with a preposition?? Tut, tut.
> Surely "trying to understand your question / problem . . . " is a much
> better way of expressing yourself correctly.
>
> --
>
> johnf
>
> > Most of us learned punctuation in grade school. This is
> > not a trivial point when someone is trying to understand
> > what your question / problem is . . .
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>I have a Ecs 848P-A motherboard I want to put a 250 gig hard drive on
> >>it as one big drive can i do this i have service pack 1 with the
> >>windows cd and sevice pack 2 on cd any help would be greatfull thanks
> >>Greg .
>
>

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In news:%23KfUkdx0EHA.804@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Dan Schaffer <somerset27@aol.com> typed:

> By the way, I was taught in school to put two spaces after
> after a
> period.


Just an aside: The old rule of two spaces after a period was a
typewriter-based one. In those typewriter days of monospaced
fonts, two spaces made text easier to read. Even then, it wasn't
done in professional publications (books, newspapers, magazines),
which used proportional fonts.

Today, when typewriters are almost gone entirely, and most of us
use proportional fonts on our computers, that two-space rule no
longer produces more readable text, and is no longer appropriate.
Because many people still have that old rule ingrained in them,
you can set some word processors to automatically change two
spaces to one if you accidentally type them.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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