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Hard Drive Capacities

The combination of the file system and the operating system used in the computer determines the

maximum usable size of a drive partition. A drive partition is the largest segment of a drive that may

be properly accessed by the operating system. A single hard drive may therefore be subdivided into a

number of unique drive partitions in order to make use of all of its space.

Because of the differences in the way that drive sizes are calculated, the size reported by the

operating system may differ from that marked on the hard drive or listed in the computer specification.

Drive size calculations by drive manufacturers are bytes to the base 10 while calculations by

Microsoft are bytes to the base 2.

Drive/Partition Capacity Limits

Maximum Size

File System Controller Type Operating System Partition Drive

FAT 32 ATA Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows7 32 GB 2 TB

NTFS ATA Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows7 2 TB 2 TB

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