[sdw2003] WinNT Disk Size ...

[Todd Walton]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bac Nguyen <surfup at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friedn of mine has a WinNT 4.0 SP6 server (don't ask why he still using
> it). He runs out of space and want to add another hard disk (master/slave)
> and he wants to buy a 500GB IDE hard drive. But, I warning him that the
> WinNT server OS might not see it - assume that the computer BIOS will see
> the disk. So, the question is how big the disk (or partition) can WinNT see
> it?

It says here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

that:
"The NTFS driver for Windows NT limits the volume size that it can
handle to 256 TiB and the file size to 16 TiB respectively"

-todd