crono_logical
Bird Eater
- Joined
- 13 Mar 2004
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Since installing SP1, I noticed that XP can now read beyond this supposedly hardware (?) limit - this has the nice advantage of giving me an extra 24 GB or so to play around with on my 160 GB IDE HD
I just want to know if it's safe though, since as I thought this was a hardware limit, something to do with 32-bit addressing or something, wouldn't it corrupt data elsewhere on the drive? And do I need to take precautions as how I format that extra space since seeing as I've got a dual-boot with Win98, should I go for NTFS so I know for certain Win98 will definately not read the partition I've created in this "new" unused space? I guess I can live with only 24GB not being shared between the two OSs
I just want to know if it's safe though, since as I thought this was a hardware limit, something to do with 32-bit addressing or something, wouldn't it corrupt data elsewhere on the drive? And do I need to take precautions as how I format that extra space since seeing as I've got a dual-boot with Win98, should I go for NTFS so I know for certain Win98 will definately not read the partition I've created in this "new" unused space? I guess I can live with only 24GB not being shared between the two OSs