XP memory/disk support

[Guest Timboi]

You would think it's easy to find the answer to this question in a nice table

somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.

I'd like to know how much memory and disk space the various flavours of XP

can support.

 

Cheers,

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: XP memory/disk support

 

Disk space is unlimited, unless you are referring to the native partitioning

size limits when creating a FAT32 volume . On memory,:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

 

"Timboi" <Timboi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> You would think it's easy to find the answer to this question in a nice

> table

> somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.

> I'd like to know how much memory and disk space the various flavours of XP

> can support.

>

> Cheers,

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: XP memory/disk support

 

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:39:01 -0800, Timboi

<Timboi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> You would think it's easy to find the answer to this question in a nice table

> somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.

> I'd like to know how much memory and disk space the various flavours of XP

> can support.

 

 

All 32-bit versions support 4GB of RAM (but can only use around 3.1GB

of it).

 

All versions support NTFS volumes of 16 terabytes.

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: XP memory/disk support

 

Except Starter, of course. I think it only supports 1GB.

 

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

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> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:39:01 -0800, Timboi

> <Timboi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>> You would think it's easy to find the answer to this question in a nice

>> table

>> somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.

>> I'd like to know how much memory and disk space the various flavours of

>> XP

>> can support.

>

>

> All 32-bit versions support 4GB of RAM (but can only use around 3.1GB

> of it).

>

> All versions support NTFS volumes of 16 terabytes.

>

> --

> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: XP memory/disk support

 

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:57 -0700, "Colin Barnhorst"

<c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

> Except Starter, of course. I think it only supports 1GB.

 

 

Thanks for the addition--I forgot about that. I'm not sure what it

supports.

 

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

> news:24kpr3puiq3fmcbrekarl06erp1qnr7s0k@4ax.com...

> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:39:01 -0800, Timboi

> > <Timboi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> >

> >> You would think it's easy to find the answer to this question in a nice

> >> table

> >> somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.

> >> I'd like to know how much memory and disk space the various flavours of

> >> XP

> >> can support.

> >

> >

> > All 32-bit versions support 4GB of RAM (but can only use around 3.1GB

> > of it).

> >

> > All versions support NTFS volumes of 16 terabytes.

> >

> > --

> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

 

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[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: XP memory/disk support

 

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Disk space is unlimited, unless you are referring to the native partitioning

>size limits when creating a FAT32 volume . On memory,:

> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

 

That page discusses PAE (Programmed Address Extension). It says that

PAE allows 32-bit Intel machines to address as much as 64GB of RAM,

which is correct. But 32-bit WinXP doesn't support that. It uses PAE

only to enable DEP (Data Execution Prevention). The result is that

32-bit WinXP supports at most 4GB of RAM. (And, as Ken said, you can't

actually use that much. See http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html

for a discussion.)

 

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Tim Slattery

MS MVP(Shell/User)

Slattery_T@bls.gov

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