maximum hard drive space recognized by vista home premium

windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home premium?

thanks jon

I think you're asking how much disk space the operating system requires.
Microsoft says 15GB and my Ultimate is weighing in at 8GB for the Windows
directory alone.

"Jon" <> wrote in message
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> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home
> premium?
>
> thanks jon

"Mike Byrns" <> wrote
>I think you're asking how much disk space the operating system requires.
>Microsoft says 15GB and my Ultimate is weighing in at 8GB for the Windows
>directory alone.
>
> "Jon" <> wrote in message
> news:60A8F9AB-C6FD-4B5A-BFB4-...
>> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home
>> premium?

You need 15GB free space for the installation, but Vista doesn't use all
that space when installed, as you have seen.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?

"Rock" wrote:

> "Mike Byrns" <> wrote
> >I think you're asking how much disk space the operating system requires.
> >Microsoft says 15GB and my Ultimate is weighing in at 8GB for the Windows
> >directory alone.
> >
> > "Jon" <> wrote in message
> > news:60A8F9AB-C6FD-4B5A-BFB4-...
> >> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home
> >> premium?
>
> You need 15GB free space for the installation, but Vista doesn't use all
> that space when installed, as you have seen.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>

I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
OK. see below

"No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?"

Tahnks Jon
"Jon" wrote:

> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home premium?
>
> thanks jon

there was no example that I could see.
what was it supposed to be.







"Jon" <> wrote in message news:B95579DA-AEC9-4CCA-B12B-...
I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
OK. see below

"No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?"

Tahnks Jon
"Jon" wrote:

> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home premium?
>
> thanks jon

Let try this ex. In XP I can have as many attached hard drives as long as
the total space including the drive that XP is installed on does not go over
2.5 TB's. How much attached storage can I have on Vista?

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> there was no example that I could see.
> what was it supposed to be.
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> "Jon" <> wrote in message news:B95579DA-AEC9-4CCA-B12B-...
> I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
> hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
> OK. see below
>
> "No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
> How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?"
>
> Tahnks Jon
> "Jon" wrote:
>
> > windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home premium?
> >
> > thanks jon

>No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
>How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...fdb4b1033.mspx
The values have not changed. It is all NTFS spec based.

Maximum size per volume is 2 TB
Maximum file size 16 terabytes
Max Files per volume 4,294,967,295

Please see
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
where this is discussed. When they say "practical limit" it means
"practical for most people". That 2TiB limit is for the default cluster
size of 4KiB. You can format a volume with a larger cluster size but
without third party tools you can't change the cluster size of an existing
volume without a reformat. The only way you're likely to get that much
capacity for a Vista Home Premium box is with hardware RAID and that can
present some interesting boot scenarios. You could go with a much larger
volume size with a dynamic volume but, alas, only with Ultimate. not Home
Premium. So practically, I'd do a system,boot, primary volume for the OS
and then format a giant cluster NTFS volume across your array if you need a
volume that big.

"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:B95579DA-AEC9-4CCA-B12B-...
>I know my example in my origanal question was bad becuase I think the max.
> hard drive space for XP is 2.5 TB but I think my ex in my reply earlier is
> OK. see below
>
> "No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
> How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file
> etc.?"
>
> Tahnks Jon
> "Jon" wrote:
>
>> windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home
>> premium?
>>
>> thanks jon

And remember reparse points -- you can mount volumes inside the same logical
file system so the file system can appear much larger.

"Abe" <> wrote in message
news:...
> >No that NOT what I asked. I even showed an example in XP!!!
>>How much hard drive space can Vista handle for storage of media file etc.?
>
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...fdb4b1033.mspx
> The values have not changed. It is all NTFS spec based.
>
> Maximum size per volume is 2 TB
> Maximum file size 16 terabytes
> Max Files per volume 4,294,967,295