Does the A7N8X support 160 GB HDDs?

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Cory Dunkle

As the subject states, I'm wondering if my new Asus A7N8X will properly
support my new 160 GB Seagate Barracuda. I put in the controller card I was
using with my old KT266 board just to be safe, though if I can switch over
to the motherboards controller and pick up some speed I'd rather do that.

Cory
 
No reason why not.
Don't forget 160Gb is the unformatted size and so you will get around 140Gb
after
 
I haven't checked lately, but have all the partition size limitations for
FAT32 or NTFS gone away?

Clark
 
Certainly in the case of NTFS, there is no current limit. If running Win XP
you need SP1 installed though.
 
It comes out to 149 GB formatted with NTFS. 11 GB just for file system
overhead... Sheesh. My first computer had two hard drives, a 10 MB and a 20
MB... I booted off the 20 MB one and doublespaced the 10 MB one. LOL

Cory
 
Cory,
The missing 11GB is not from filesystem overhead, it is from misleading
harddrive manufacturing advertising.

Computers compute a gigabyte as 1024 MB's, where a MB is 1024 KB, where
a KB is 1024 Bytes, or 1024*1024*1024 = 1,073,741,824 Bytes.

Hard Drive Manufacturers compute a GB as 1,000,000,000 Bytes.

Thus a 160,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 = 149 GB's.
 
Damn, that's sleazy. I always wondered why there were 1024 KB in a MB, but
only 1000 MB in a GB. I guess that explains it.

Cory
 
Cory Dunkle said:
As the subject states, I'm wondering if my new Asus A7N8X will properly
support my new 160 GB Seagate Barracuda. I put in the controller card I was
using with my old KT266 board just to be safe, though if I can switch over
to the motherboards controller and pick up some speed I'd rather do that.

Cory
Click to expand...

I have an A7N8X-DLX rev 1.04 and I have a 200 GB Maxtor drive. No
problems. I partitioned it as 2- 100 GB drives for personal
convenience.

arnie
 
I hate to beat this up, especially since it isn't my thread, but if you need
SP1 installed to run a drive as large as 160 gigs (fat32), if you do an
initial install of Win XP, which in my case doesn't have SP1, can you
install it to a large drive or will you get errors?

Clark
 
Clark said:
I hate to beat this up, especially since it isn't my thread, but if you need
SP1 installed to run a drive as large as 160 gigs (fat32), if you do an
initial install of Win XP, which in my case doesn't have SP1, can you
install it to a large drive or will you get errors?

Clark
Click to expand...

The hard drive will be formatted to the largest
size that XP supports. You could slipstream
SP1 into XP. here's one link I found on google
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm
by searching on slipstream SP1.
 
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