maximum hard drive space recognized by vista home premium

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I think you're asking how much disk space the operating system requires.
Microsoft says 15GB and my Ultimate is weighing in at 8GB for the Windows
directory alone.
 
Mike Byrns said:
I think you're asking how much disk space the operating system requires.
Microsoft says 15GB and my Ultimate is weighing in at 8GB for the Windows
directory alone.
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You need 15GB free space for the installation, but Vista doesn't use all
that space when installed, as you have seen.
 
No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?
 
I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
OK. see below

"No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?"

Tahnks Jon
 
there was no example that I could see.
what was it supposed to be.



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I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
OK. see below

"No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?"

Tahnks Jon
 
Let try this ex. In XP I can have as many attached hard drives as long as
the total space including the drive that XP is installed on does not go over
2.5 TB's. How much attached storage can I have on Vista?
 
Please see
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...0433-4ba1-a2f4-9338915fdb4b1033.mspx?mfr=true
where this is discussed. When they say "practical limit" it means
"practical for most people". That 2TiB limit is for the default cluster
size of 4KiB. You can format a volume with a larger cluster size but
without third party tools you can't change the cluster size of an existing
volume without a reformat. The only way you're likely to get that much
capacity for a Vista Home Premium box is with hardware RAID and that can
present some interesting boot scenarios. You could go with a much larger
volume size with a dynamic volume but, alas, only with Ultimate. not Home
Premium. So practically, I'd do a system,boot, primary volume for the OS
and then format a giant cluster NTFS volume across your array if you need a
volume that big.
 
And remember reparse points -- you can mount volumes inside the same logical
file system so the file system can appear much larger.
 
No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
And remember reparse points -- you can mount volumes inside the same logical
file system so the file system can appear much larger.
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Correct. I was trying to keep it simple.
 
I am not asking about a single partion I am asking about multiple hard drive
on on PC.
ie. c: 1TB d: 1TB e: 1TB XP will only see 2.5 TB how much more drive space
can I add to Vista home pre
 
when you referenced showed an example, it sounded like there was supposed to be a picture.



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Let try this ex. In XP I can have as many attached hard drives as long as
the total space including the drive that XP is installed on does not go over
2.5 TB's. How much attached storage can I have on Vista?
 
Well, then. I'm not aware of any limit with either OS and have "slightly
more" than 2.5TiB of total local storage on Vista right now. I need you to
produce a source for that assertion and we'll be able to help with it.
 
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