300GB hard drive

[Rottie]

I saw good price on Seagate 300GB hard drive I am thinking about getting two hard drives but I don't know if my rig or windows xp pro will be able to read full 300GB each? Or 2 300GB are too much?

few reasons I want to upgrade is
I have 2 40GB hard drives which is almost filled up (drive c for windows xp pro and drive d for games)
both hard drives are about 4 or 5 years old now.
3rd drive 80GB is 1 year old now for video editing/photo (will keep it)
I am not sure I can mix with both SATA and Ultra ATA?

What do you think?

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

I have a one 300GB SATA Seagate, one 200GB PATA WD, and one 250GB PATA WD under WinXP with no issues. One partition per drive.

Hope that helps.

p/s. By PATA I mean parallel ATA which I believe is what you're referring to by "Ultra ATA".

 

[Tu13erhead]

Should work just fine.

 

[Rottie]

Many thanks.....

By the way, If I decide to buy SATA HD, do I have to re-install windows xp pro again for sata driver or something?

 

[Tu13erhead]

Originally posted by: Rottie
Many thanks.....

By the way, If I decide to buy SATA HD, do I have to re-install windows xp pro again for sata driver or something?

If you're not planning on installing XP on the new drive, then you don't need to install anything. Just plug it in (with the system off), boot to Windows, then go Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management to allocate space on your drive and make it NTFS.

Should be good to go from there 🙂

 

[bruceb]

Windows XP requires at least SP1 or later to recognize hard drives
of over 120GB in size .. if you have that sp installed, no problems

 

[Rottie]

Great...Thanks guys.