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Windows XP TB Limit?
newy:
Boot is only able to handle 2 TB ("Master Boot"-something)
costi:
MBR to be exact (Master Boot Record). However, MBR has nothing to do with disk capacity - it simply tells the system where to find boot information. This does not mean that you can't use a HDD that is larger than 2TB - all it means is that the boot partition needs to be below the 2TB limit (counting from the beginning of the HDD).
theprophet:
XP pro Svc3 32bit is what I am going to be running, currently in the computer is a 300gig drive which is the Windows and program drive, and then 3 2TB drive all for video storage.
Currently running Win 7 Home 32bit, I was only running it because of the drive size but have been having several playback problems that I am thinking is OS related. On the longer videos the videos have a bad habit of freezing, and either locking up or suddenly shooting back forward to where the video would be before it froze and vid and audio would be out of sync. I don't seem to have problems running the 30 minute episodes of anime, but if I watch movies or anything over an hour it seems to have problems. I have an after market heat sink on processor, not over clocking at all, and plenty of circulation of air in the case. Thought it might have been over heating at first..
All codecs are current, running MPC, with CCCP codec pack, Dual core 3.0 ghz AMD, 2 gig ram, onboard video http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138146,
System only used to playback movies no programs used other that the OS running.
NaRu:
Right now the Bios is the bottle neck for the harddrive. Bios cant see anything bigger then 2TB drives.
theprophet:
Well I'm not using bigger than 2TB drives, I was told there was a problem with xp not recognizing the 2TB drives don't wanna break them up into seperate partitions. Will 64 bit version of XP get rid of this problem?
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