On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due > to > >my motherboard or what? > > No it will not. An external drive comes with its own disk controller in > the drive's box. You are not using the controller on your motherboard so > those limits do not apply. However, you OS may also place limits on > addressability and those limits would apply. > In fact, I saw a recent article on this. Infoworld or CNET or something. The writer went back to his original XP disc to reinstall on the new 1 TB drive. Apparently, the original XP could not see anything bigger than 120GB or so. So he had to create a slipstreamed XP disk with SP 2 on it. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
