hard drive limit

[Ben]

Does anyone know if there is a limit on the size of a
hard drive for XP? I looked in the knowledge base and
couldn't find any real helpful info. I thought that Win
98 had a limitation, and am not sure about XP.

Thanks

Ben

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Does anyone know if there is a limit on the size of a
| hard drive for XP? I looked in the knowledge base and
| couldn't find any real helpful info. I thought that Win
| 98 had a limitation, and am not sure about XP.
|
| Thanks
|
| Ben

 

[Guest]

Thanks! My motherboard will support my new drive..I just
wanted to make sure XP would. No terabyte drive, but I
hear Hitachi has a hot SATA 400gb drive! Thanks again.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]

1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're a
Brit).

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

Does anyone know if there is a limit on the size of a
hard drive for XP? I looked in the knowledge base and
couldn't find any real helpful info. I thought that Win
98 had a limitation, and am not sure about XP.

All operating systems have limits, depending on what file system
is used. XP's NTFS limit is extremely large: 2**32 clusters
minus one cluster.

So, using 64KB clusters, it's 256 terabytes minus 64KB. Using the
default 4K cluster size, it's 16 terabytes minus 4KB. Both of
these are certainly larger than you can buy, and larger than what
your motherboard will support.

See
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

or http://tinyurl.com/2ozuo

 

[Guest]

Hi, Miss Information

The correct word is "spelled" not spelt

----- Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote: ----



1) It's spelt 'terAbyte

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024G
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work i
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillio
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're
Brit)

 

[krok dundee]

chk ur spel chker uttered the following on 6/4/2004 9:46 PM:

Hi, Miss Information:

The correct word is "spelled" not spelt.

----- Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote: -----



1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're a
Brit).

ROTFLMAO

 

[G Busch]

Hmmmm... I looked amongst the books on my shelf whilst reading this (as I
thought about my car's tyre hitting the kerb - the gray coloured kerb
beneath the bonnet) and decided "spelt" is one of those British things...
According to the dictionary "spelt" is legal.

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Two countries forever divided by a spelling problem, rather than a language!

 

[Sunny]

Spelt (Triticum aestivum var. spelta) is a sub-species of common wheat
verb [I or T] spelled or UK AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH ALSO spelt,
to form a word or words with the letters in the correct order:

 

[Tom]

Two countries forever divided by a spelling problem, rather than a language!

Your reply makes no sense? To say "problem" suggests that one *may* be wrong
using their native spelling, to which neither is wrong (in the case of using
various regional uses of the English based lexicon) . Maybe using
"differences" would be applicable.

 

[G Busch]

Your reply makes no sense? To say "problem" suggests that one *may* be wrong
using their native spelling, to which neither is wrong (in the case of using
various regional uses of the English based lexicon) . Maybe using
"differences" would be applicable.

To tell someone they are "wrong" rather than "different" infers a problem -
it's either true or false. Do you beg to differ, or do you have a problem
with that?

 

[Ted]

To tell someone they are "wrong" rather than "different" infers a problem -
it's either true or false. Do you beg to differ, or do you have a problem
with that?

You must be an ameriKKKan, correct?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

As long as we're correcting spelling,

"Spelt" is a "Hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. The word is
"spelled."

Most hard drive manufacturer's use a different standard for quoting size and
under their standard of measurement up to now, 1000GB would equal a
terabyte.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]

1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're a
Brit).

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

But she wasn't correcting a Brit!<VBG>

 

[G Busch]

Spelt: "A past tense and a past participle of spell."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelt

As long as we're correcting spelling,

"Spelt" is a "Hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. The word is
"spelled."

Most hard drive manufacturer's use a different standard for quoting size and
under their standard of measurement up to now, 1000GB would equal a
terabyte.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]

1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're a
Brit).

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Oh big deal, so does Webster...so what! Are you disputing the definition
I posted, it's also listed at the American Heritage link you posted...so
there!!!

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Spelt: "A past tense and a past participle of spell."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelt

As long as we're correcting spelling,

"Spelt" is a "Hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. The word is
"spelled."

Most hard drive manufacturer's use a different standard for quoting size and
under their standard of measurement up to now, 1000GB would equal a
terabyte.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]


1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're
a
Brit).

 

[G Busch]

You must be an ameriKKKan, correct?

What difference does it make? To tell someone they are "wrong" just
because they spell something differently than they do in their own society
(culture) is just plain RUDE. I see many people get lambasted because of
their poor English, when in fact English is not their primary language. I'd
like to see how these folks would do in communicating in Russian, German,
French, Japanese, etc.

BTW, how does the Ku Klux Klan enter into this?

 

[G Busch]

You admit it then, The word can also be "spelt!" So there, back 'atcha...

Oh big deal, so does Webster...so what! Are you disputing the definition
I posted, it's also listed at the American Heritage link you posted...so
there!!!

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Spelt: "A past tense and a past participle of spell."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelt

As long as we're correcting spelling,

"Spelt" is a "Hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. The word is
"spelled."

Most hard drive manufacturer's use a different standard for quoting

size
and

under their standard of measurement up to now, 1000GB would equal a
terabyte.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]


1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is 1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're
a
Brit).

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

LOL, yes, I admit it!

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

You admit it then, The word can also be "spelt!" So there, back 'atcha...

Oh big deal, so does Webster...so what! Are you disputing the definition
I posted, it's also listed at the American Heritage link you posted...so
there!!!

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Spelt: "A past tense and a past participle of spell."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spelt


in
message As long as we're correcting spelling,

"Spelt" is a "Hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. The word is
"spelled."

Most hard drive manufacturer's use a different standard for quoting size
and
under their standard of measurement up to now, 1000GB would equal a
terabyte.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
Windows XP will support up to 4 Terebytes of storage (NTFS only).
However, your motherboard must also support storage that large.
Check your motherboard specifications and let us know if you find
a 1 Terebyte hard drive.

[4 Terebytes = 4,000 Gigabytes]


1) It's spelt 'terAbyte'

2) Accuracy's never been your strong suit has it?! A terabyte is
1024GB
(yes, I know it's decimal versus binary, but computers don't work in
decimal!) Or, if you prefer, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. That's a trillion
decimal bytes (if you're a Yank) or a billion decimal bytes (if you're
a
Brit).