Good news. The drive capacity limit is set by the drive controller
hardware. For your IDE drive that was on the mobo. If you had gotten
a PCI card controller you could have used the larger drive inside
your Dell without partitioning. Similarly the USB enclosure has a
drive controller in its case. The specs on that controller will
determine how large a drive you can use.
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:13 PM, rleesimon wrote:
I have a winXPhomeSP3 on a Dell4400 the motherboard/firmware of
which will
support only 130gb limit. How do I know this? I bought a
replacement HDD
for it from original 40gb and got 130gb and it failed; they sent a
replacement but ran out of that size and sent 160gb instead. In
system
tools, I saw the 160gb but only 120 was in use so I had to set up a
separate
drive letter and got back the 40gb missing. Now, I have a 120gb
external
USB drive and I wanna get a 1 or 2 TB USB drive for storage; will I
hafta
partition that into lots of little drives or what? What about
switching it
to use on my winXPproSP3 laptop too?
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