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xp pro sp3, not accept over 2TB hdd?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by koolss, 2010/08/14.

  1. 2010/08/14
    koolss

    koolss Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have some question,

    if new 1.5TB hdd installed.
    "Windows XP PRO SP3" is full detect and used 1.5TB?

    because someone said "xp not accept over 2TB hdd "?
    if hdd size is "1.5TB" hdd, is work?

    my motherboard is support 2TB size HDD.

    thanks
     
  2. 2010/08/14
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    2TB is the limit imposed by the NTFS partition table, so a single drive can't be larger then 2TB (unless you start tweaking sector size, taking that from 512 bytes to 4KB will let XP handle up to 16TB).
     
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