32gb Limit

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Dave

Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave
 
You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has updated the BIOS to
support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller card that
supports larger drives.
 
Dave said:
Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave
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You need to format the drive as NTFS, not FAT. FAT volumes are limited to
32GB.

Bobby
 
Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this machine
I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!

I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.

Brian
 
There are also software work-arounds, such as Maxtors
Max-Blast.



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| You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has
updated the BIOS to
| support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller
card that
| supports larger drives.
|
| | > Hi,
| > I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the
Award BIOS will
| > only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP,
which is working
| > fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
| > Dave
| >
|
|
 
Brian said:
Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this machine
I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!

I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.

Brian
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XP will only format a HD as FAT32 up to 32GB. But if a HD was formatted
with FAT32 using some other formatting utility (e.g., FDISK) which can
handle >32GB, then XP will use that pre-formatted FAT32 HD.
 
FDISK is not a format utility! It creates a partition, that's all!

This would indicate that the drive was set up with a version of Windows,
other than XP. Microsoft has purposely place FAT32 limitions into XP.
 
Jerry said:
You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has updated the BIOS to
support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller card that
supports larger drives.
Click to expand...

....or the other alternative of using multiple partitions
on the hard drive. One might not need nor possibly desire
to have large, single partitions. YMMV.
 
Yves said:
FDISK is not a format utility! It creates a partition, that's all!

This would indicate that the drive was set up with a version of Windows,
other than XP. Microsoft has purposely place FAT32 limitions into XP.



Brian Gaff wrote:



XP will only format a HD as FAT32 up to 32GB. But if a HD was formatted
with FAT32 using some other formatting utility (e.g., FDISK) which can
handle >32GB, then XP will use that pre-formatted FAT32 HD.
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Right. I should have said FORMAT.
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