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  1. Jun 12th, 2009, 08:07 AM #4
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    Re: max number/size of drives when spanning in Windows?

    there "was" a 3 terabyte limit, but i believe sp1 removed it. As for "32-bit boundary", this doesn't apply to hard drives formatted in ntfs 5 or higher, no matter what OS they are on. It uses a 64-bit index, with a standard logical sector of 2048 bytes (physical ones are 512).

    There are possible software issues for root drives, but vista and 7 are not affected. xp sp1 and below can't be installed on a disk above a certain size but annoyingly can access bigger drives.
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