Question About Hard Drive Size + Windows Xp

[psx2000]

What is the biggest size Hard Drive that windows Xp detects?

My friend said if i i buy a 200 gig MAXTOR only 130 gigs will sow up cause windows caps at 120 gigs.


is this true?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Why would they make 200gig hard drives if windows won't see it? If it caps at 120 why would it see 130? My 2c.

 

[psx2000]

Well you could use the drive in a LINUX o.s.


But yea i had the same thoughts you did. I thought my friend was crazy.

 

[psx2000]

BTW what is the difference between these 2 drives


http://www.byteware.net/index.php?page=info&id=1277
http://www.byteware.net/index.php?page=info&id=2699

I cant tell and 1 is more expensive then the other.

Thanks for the help and answering my questions.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

I saw some minor differences but I don't know what I was looking at.

 

[jumpy]

Ummm, I think they have labelled the 1800jb one wrong, isnt the 1800jb a 180gb hdd?

 

[Taurus]

yeah, the WD1800JB is the 180gb model. make sure they realize this before you order it, though!

 

[Skwowwy]

Windows XP has a limit on hard drive sizes (goes up to 120 GB). However, Windows XP SP1 doesn't have that limit. A friend of mine has 200 GB on his computer and his XP SP1 can detect it all fine.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

That's good to know, thanx Skwowwy.

 

[dayle]

they both have the same config an features ...but why such a drastic price difference

 

[jumpy]

Just as I said, and as taurus confirmed, the 1800JB model is a 180gb hard drive, which has obviously been written wrongly as 120gb. That's why the big price difference dayle.

 

[Zedric]

UDMA100 controllers have a capped size of 137 GB due to it's addressing range. In UDMA133 controllers this has been fixed so it can sustain larger drives (don't know how big, but very big).

 

[VWW]

Anyone know the limit that Win2k has for hard drive sizes? Has it been fixed up in SP3 like SP1 fixed up WinXP?