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Name: sheela130
Date: May 2, 2002 at 13:04:38 Pacific
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I am running WinXp, is there any limit to the size of hard drive I can put in my computer? I only want to use it as one large disk.........Thanks



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Name: Alastor
Date: May 2, 2002 at 13:14:41 Pacific
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Check out this thread.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2801867,00.html


Hope that helps

Alastor


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Response Number 2
Name: Spaz
Date: May 2, 2002 at 13:38:31 Pacific
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The limit's like 2 Terabytes or something obscene like that, so anything you buy on the market will work just fine.


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Response Number 3
Name: fred
Date: May 2, 2002 at 14:48:52 Pacific
Reply:

Not necessarily Spaz. The Bios might have a limitation. However it can normally be overcome with a download of an 'overlay' program from the hard drive manufacturers web site.


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Response Number 4
Name: guru
Date: May 2, 2002 at 15:23:24 Pacific
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running one big hdd partition is asking for trouble.


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Response Number 5
Name: Keith
Date: May 3, 2002 at 07:34:07 Pacific
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I thought if your file system is FAT32 there is a much smaller limit (like 32 Gb?).


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