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...and be recognised to it's true capacity?
Windows XP (without SP2) only recognises drives up to around 127 gig.
If the drive is formatted thru Computer Management console (with SP2)
and is then used to start the install of XP, the installation process
doesn't recognise the large volume as being valid (it considers it
corrupt/unrecognisable) and requires it to be formatted again (which
will then reduce it to around 127gb).
I haven't actually tried partitioning the drive first but don't really
want to and doubt it would matter in any case.
I want to use the hard drive, to it's full capacity of 300gb (279gb in
reality), as the master boot drive.
Is this possible?
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dd22qq
...and be recognised to it's true capacity?
Windows XP (without SP2) only recognises drives up to around 127 gig.
If the drive is formatted thru Computer Management console (with SP2)
and is then used to start the install of XP, the installation process
doesn't recognise the large volume as being valid (it considers it
corrupt/unrecognisable) and requires it to be formatted again (which
will then reduce it to around 127gb).
I haven't actually tried partitioning the drive first but don't really
want to and doubt it would matter in any case.
I want to use the hard drive, to it's full capacity of 300gb (279gb in
reality), as the master boot drive.
Is this possible?
--
dd22qq