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[artzelda]

I am thinking of getting a second hard drive and an concerned that it may not be compatible with either my BIOS or winXP. I have heard that some BIOS and WINXP home ed may not see hard drives larger than 137G (Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 303013). How can I check out if my BIOS is compatible. I currently have a 120G hard drive and a Gateway 1.7GHz computer (about 3 years old).

[boxcrash]

Yes, true of course FAT 32 only supports aprox 32 gb partitions, and why use FAT 32 over NTFS, I mean NTFS fragments less, more stable, more secure, etc.

I only use NTFS myself, ever since I tried to format a drive with larger than 32gb partitions back in the day I never looked back to FAT 32, I would NTFS a floppy if I could. :D :P