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What is the maximum size of HDD my mother board supports

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Hi,

This is my motherboard

http://www.mercury-pc.com/product-detail.php?productid=53#

Mercury KOB P4M266 NDFSMX
Intel Pentium 4 (478 pins) Mainboard w/VIA P4M266(NB) & VT8233(SB)

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There is no real limit; only a limit to what disks you can boot from. If you have a 2TB disk just make a partition smaller than 128GiB and boot from that one. If you OS is modern enough you should be able to use all remainder space.

Windows XP SP1 and higher can access disks/partitions larger than 128GiB
Vista and up with GPT paritions can access disks/partitions larger than 2TiB.

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Without using a SATA addon card, you will be limited to the onboard EIDE interface.
The largest EIDE hard drive I have seen would be 500Gb.
Therefore, you are limited to a 500Gb hard drive.

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First of all i think you mean 500 GB or Gigabyte, not Gb or Gigabit.

Second, even with PATA why would he be limited in capacity? If there were 2TB PATA drives he could just connect one, boot from a 128GiB or smaller partition and Windows SP1 or later would see the rest of the capacity. It wouldn't be 'officially supported' - but it should work.

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