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Large drive support
Windows now supports the use of drives greater than 2 GB (gigabytes) in capacity. The maximum supported drive size is 2 TB (terabytes). Large drive support can help you dramatically reduce the amount of wasted space on your computer`s hard disk.

Im going to computer fair this week and intend to install a bigger IDE hard drive, about 20 GB or 15GB, Im running OS/95 VERSION 2 and I used windows help to see how big a hard drive it would support and got the message above, could some body tell me what a terbyte is in GB
terms, and is the hard drive size limit dependent on the operating system or the mother board. (socket 7)

A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes.

Obviously hard drive size is dependant on the operating system, as the windows help has told you (up to 2 terabytes).

I don`t think there are many other factors which limit this, although if there are the drive controller may be one.

Hope this helps!

Sell ya board get a socket A, fit a thunderbird and jobs done. Then buy any size disc and use 98 not 95 but if you have to use WIN95 OSR2.5c.

Before anyone repplies to this saying what osr2.5c it`s and oem update to 2.5.

Seeing as I`m a registered Microsoft developer I`d know what I`m talking about....

AMD Durons or only 49 ish quid for a 700MHZ bargain buy and fit in a socket A.

the limiting factor will be the bios in your pc.

you can use a hard drive problem to correct errors when you turn the machine on. Have a look at the maxtor site www.maxtor.com or any of the manufacturers for file downloads.

I have a 40gb maxtor drive that worked with win95 using such a utility (EZDSK - or something like that) without this the pc reported a hard disc size of 8gb.

Although as previously stated a big drive into an old machine may be an upgrade to far.

My computer hand book says max hard drive 8.4 gig which is what it does at first but when using windows 98 and a few a temps to get it right it now runs 20.4 gig without using any extra software .If i remember correctly i first put the win98 on in 2gig 16bit sections then converted to 32bit and one large drive [2 attemps due to me making an error ]it works ok now.Its hard to remember all the steps involved but it was worth it.

hope this helps


R.B