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thanks for your reply:). sorry I cant up-vote due to reputation issue :-)
– Hemant
Commented Aug 30, 2010 at 8:58
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-1: NTFS can go far larger than that (on 32bit OS more than 32bits is used for NTFS sizes and allocations). See serverfault.com/questions/49158/storage-limit-in-windows-2008/… (remember Server 2003 is the server edition of WinXP and has the same limits). Are you thinking of LBA addressing range?
– Richard
Commented Aug 30, 2010 at 9:58
@Richard: The limitation does go deeper than NTFS with 64-bit LBA addressing, which is why you need a 64-bits O/S. But I didn't want to confuse the issue by using too technical terms.
– harrymc
Commented Aug 30, 2010 at 10:49
@harrymc Technet lists no 32bit vs 64bit difference (see the limits listed by MS from the A linked above). Do you have a reference?
– Richard
Commented Aug 30, 2010 at 11:17
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@harrymc: Actually, the article at carltonbale.com says that the 2TB limit only applies to MBR partitioning schemes, not to GPT. And GPT is supported natively in Vista and up. So I don't see how you can claim a general limit of 2 TB for 32bit Windows.
– sleske
Commented Aug 30, 2010 at 23:00

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