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gate1975mlm
10-26-04, 10:12 AM
I will be getting an Nforce4 board soon. And I will be installing a 300GB SATA drive on it. When I get to that blue screen to setup and format the drive for a clean install will it be able to read the hole 300GB? My Windows XP Home CD has SP2 in it already.
Bill The Cat
10-26-04, 10:39 AM
Yes, it will.
Dazz
10-26-04, 11:20 AM
Yeah if you are buying XP home soon then yes it will have it built in.
Lezmaka
10-26-04, 04:23 PM
Just make sure you format it with FAT16 first.

(mag)
r2d2d3d4d5
10-26-04, 05:09 PM
Just make sure you format it with FAT16 first.

(mag)
:wtf:
Bill The Cat
10-27-04, 01:47 AM
Just make sure you format it with FAT16 first.

(mag)

(drunk)
Kojiro
10-27-04, 01:51 PM
(drunk)

more like smoking weed.
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NTFS can handle more space than Fat 32.

But it is best to use the partition and formating util that comes with the hard drive. It comes with a nice Pie graph that visualy shows how much space the partition is taking.

For a 300 GB drive I do not recommend one large partition. I would use 6, 50 GB partitions. But if you do not wan that many partitions you can make fewer Large partiton, but I warn that the larger the partition the more space will be wasted in File System slack. To me, six 50GB partitions is the balance between partiton space usage and not being over loaded with partitions.
ynnek
10-28-04, 11:55 AM
whaa, 6 50 meg partitions? ugh..

You can also argue that you may waste space when your partitions become full, but need to install something in one chunk.



more like smoking weed.
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NTFS can handle more space than Fat 32.

But it is best to use the partition and formating util that comes with the hard drive. It comes with a nice Pie graph that visualy shows how much space the partition is taking.

For a 300 GB drive I do not recommend one large partition. I would use 6, 50 GB partitions. But if you do not wan that many partitions you can make fewer Large partiton, but I warn that the larger the partition the more space will be wasted in File System slack. To me, six 50GB partitions is the balance between partiton space usage and not being over loaded with partitions.
-=DVS=-
10-28-04, 12:34 PM
As long as your WindowsXP have SP1 and or 2 already preinstalled on CD , you woun't have any problem. And NTFS is the way to go realy.
Dazz
10-28-04, 02:25 PM
AH with 300GB are you really going to miss 1GB?