Maximum Hard Disk capacity detected

Hi All,

Can i know what is the maximum Hard disk capacity that a windows xp disk can detect, not the sp2 disk. When i used that normal xp disk for my 320GB Sata HDD it just showed 120GB and did not detect the other 80GB IDE HDD, but when i used my XP with SP2 disk i could see all the hard disks.

So is there any limit like that.

S

yes there is limit to hdd you can use with your mobo.depends on mobo(correct me if i am wrong)

If that is the case then why did the disk with SP2 show the complete Hard Disk.

Also in BIOS all hard disk with its full capacity were displayed.

My older rig was P4 2.66GHz, Intel D101GGC motherboard, 1GB and 512MB DDR400Mhz RAM.

I have not tried in my new rig. But just installed windows from my sp2 disc on it, which showed all HDD.

S

oh sorry man i misunderstood the question in first place.i ws thinking about hardware limitation.

A

xp without any service pack, the original release identified less than 160 GB HDD, this is not a mobo issue but OS issue

one of my friend is using 250GB SATA and 89GB IDE hard disks with out any type of probs

A

crazydevil said:
one of my friend is using 250GB SATA and 89GB IDE hard disks with out any type of probs

then get it cleared is he using XP with Service Pack 2 or without any Service Pack no even SP1.

acewin said:
xp without any service pack, the original release identified less than 160 GB HDD, this is not a mobo issue but OS issue

I agree with you acewin, i just wanted to confirm this. Thank you...

S

acewin said:
xp without any service pack, the original release identified less than 160 GB HDD, this is not a mobo issue but OS issue

yes THIS is not mobo issue.what i meant was there is a limitation (hardware) for max hdd size.like my motherboard can't support greater than 2tb as told by paranj.
(whose gonna buy a 2tb hdd anyways

)

R

one day people will buy in TB...it is coming closer and closer

A

well its already true, there are people who would have got 1 TB of HDD