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ation time. After installing the OS and then the SP1 update, you can either partition the
remainder of the drive using standard partitioning software or use a third-party partition-
ing program such as PartitionMagic or Partition Commander to resize the first partition to
use the full drive. If you are booting from an XP SP1 or later CD, you can recognize and
access the entire drive during the OS installation and partition the entire drive as a single
partition greater than 137GB, if you want.
Finally, keep in mind that the original version of Windows XP, as well as Windows 2000/
NT or Windows 95/98/Me, does not provide native support for ATA hard drives that are
larger than 137GB. However, as indicated earlier, you can easily solve that by loading the
appropriate service packs or the Intel Application Accelerator.
Operating System and Other Software Limitations
Notethatifyouuseoldersoftware,includingutilities,applications,orevenoperatingsys-
tems that rely exclusively on CHS parameters, these items will see all drives over 8.4GB
as8.4GBonly.YouwillneednotonlyanewerBIOS,butalsonewersoftwaredesignedto
handle the direct LBA addressing to work with drives over 8.4GB.
Operating system limitations with respect to drives over 8.4GB are shown in
Table 7.23
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Table 7.23 Operating System Limitations
