250gb Hdd

[ESIFL]

I am getting (the parts are on the way) a 250 Gigabyte Hard drive. I've read/heard that Windows does not recognize anything over 160GB or something.

I had an old Sony Vaio comp. with a 2GB HDD and Windows 95 didn't recognize over 1GB so it made C:\ and an extra virtual drive D:\.

Now what I am wondering is if my HDD for my new computer will automatically recognize the 250GB and make me a virtual drive for me, or will I have to set it up manually.

Thanks (muchly)

HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144417

[EDIT: Formatting & Spellcheck]

 

[ferris]

What OS will you be running? Because, XP will recognize it. Not sure about 2000, or ME. But 98 and below wont I dont think so.

So, if you are going to be running XP, it will recognize it.

 

[ESIFL]

Oh yeah, sorry, I'll be running XP Home.

 

[ferris]

Then yes, it will.

 

[ESIFL]

Alright, thank you very much.

 

[flyboychuckles]

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79821

There's a sticky in the troubleshooting forum.

I was using win2000pro and had to make a registry change, but with XPpro all I needed was SP2 installed and was all set. Now I had XPPro SP2 installed all at once so from the moment I installed windows it recognized my drives. Just read the above guide under section IIb, which has links to microsoft support. You shouldn't have much trouble though.

 

[ESIFL]

Thanks for the link, I'll keep looking into it.

 

[Tyler1989]

Any XP can see that size.

 

[shdwsclan]

Fat\16\32 partitions are very limited.
NTFS is much more efficient.

Xp and 2000 base will only display up to 137gb.
XP sp1 and 2000 sp4 increases logical block from 24bit to 48bit to tackles the barrier......the problem is.....what about the people that have disks with OSes without SP1 or better......

Yes you could slipstream or download illegal copies.....

 

[digima$ter]

Windows will probably recongize it, but I have my doubts. My brother uses OpenBSD so he doesn't have a problem with this king of stuff. If this is still a prob, I would get 2 150 gb hardrives or 2 180.