External Hard Drive storage limit?
Results 1 to 3 of 3

Thread: External Hard Drive storage limit?

  1. June 10th, 2003, 12:35 AM #1
    zman0837
    zman0837 is offline Virtual Med Student
    Join Date
    Jun 2000
    Location
    Tyler, TX USA
    Posts
    45

    Question External Hard Drive storage limit?

    Has anyone heard of or know about a 30GB limit per partition windows XP reads on external hard drives. USB or Firewire, any version. Make sense? A friend has a 120 GB external HD but claims XP will only read 30GB partitions.
    Solution -

    format c: <ENTER>
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. June 10th, 2003, 03:59 PM #2
    ProfessorU's Avatar
    ProfessorU
    ProfessorU is offline Virtual PC Surgeon!
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Location
    Chicago
    Posts
    1,107
    I've seen a bunch of problems past the 137GB barrier, but even partitioning can't fix that. Can you post more details?
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. June 10th, 2003, 05:17 PM #3
    jdc2000's Avatar
    jdc2000
    jdc2000 is online now Site Moderator
    Join Date
    Feb 2000
    Location
    Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA
    Posts
    18,428
    Actually, XP can read partitions larger than 30GB. The limit is in creating FAT32 partitions. For that you need a partitioning program, or Win98's format program.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules