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what is the maximum hard drive size supported by windows 2000 and XP?
i've found that professional XP can support up to 256tb (-4kb) if in NTFS and about 17.6 TB if using FAT32 but there is no infomation online about windows 2000.
also, on a side note which file system should i use? i hear FAT32 is very restrictive with disks.
5 Answers
- Spock (rhp)Lv 73 months agoFavourite answer
the restrictions are due to the file storage scheme, not the operating system. if Win 2000 supports NTFS at all, the maximum size will be the same. you'll have to look up NTFS and Win 2000 --- I can't remember that far back
- 2 months ago
32GB is the maximum partition size limit using the FAT or FAT32 file system format on Windows.
- ∅Lv 73 months ago
2000 uses NTFS, so those rules apply.
it is the file system that determines max sizes.
- Anonymous3 months ago
There are no 256 TB drives on the market. You're talking about volumes. Windows 2000 has the same limitation for volumes. FAT32 isn't "restrictive" with disks; it's just very inefficient on large drives due to "cluster slack."
