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ccg - 29 Nov 2003 18:32 GMT

Does Windows ME support serial ATA harddrives?, also can I
format a 160Gb hardrive ti a single partition in Windows
ME?.
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Mike M - 29 Nov 2003 19:24 GMT

It's not so much whether Win Me supports serial ATA but rather whether a Win
Me driver is available for the SATA chipset in use. The Silicon Image driver
used for the SI chipset used on my Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra motherboard can be
installed on Win9x, Win Me as well as NT based systems such as W2K & XP.

As for a single partition 160GB drive, no, the maximum partition size on Win
Me is 127.5GB when using 32KB clusters. Whilst larger partitions are possible
problems will occur with setup, scandisk and defrag, the last two because they
are essentially 16 bit applications and cannot handle the number of clusters
involved.

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> Does Windows ME support serial ATA harddrives?, also can I
> format a 160Gb hardrive ti a single partition in Windows
> ME?.
> Please reply to ccg@ukonline.co.uk

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Jerry - 29 Nov 2003 20:59 GMT

If your BIOS is capable of supporting drives larger than the 137Gb limit of
most motherboards you canuse thelarger drive but you will have to keep the
largest partition smaller than the above limit.

> It's not so much whether Win Me supports serial ATA but rather whether a Win
> Me driver is available for the SATA chipset in use. The Silicon Image driver
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> > ME?.
> > Please reply to ccg@ukonline.co.uk

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