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#1 | hard drive larger than 137 GB on windows 2000 datum

Mon Feb 21, 2022 6:29 pm (Last edited: Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:31 pm)

hello forum, i have a question, can whether install of windows 2000 to hard drive larger than 137 GB? now time it is hard to search a hard drive smaller than 500 GB, i have hard drive size only 2 TB, i read, what old BIOSes and motherboards do not support addressing LBA-48, is it worth worrying, what, hard drive data will lost.

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#2 | RE: hard drive larger than 137 GB on windows 2000 datum

6 minutes ago

@Just_Whiteman
It is the BIOS of your mainboard, which prevents, that you can have access to more tha ca. 137 GB of your 2 TB sized mainboard. For details please look into >this< wikipedia page.
Since the "Logical block addressing" issue is a general and a Mainboard/BIOS related one, you can use any HDD/SSD without any problem (except the limited usable volume size).

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