Hard disk Support

Hey guys!

I hope you were thinking of buying high capacity hard disks for your system to store very much of your data like music,movies,games,multiple OS etc. OS what? multiple OS wait....

Do you know that each OS has its own value to support hard disk.If you are planning  to buy hard disk more than 2.2TB then you must know.

 


Operating System                                               boot disk                                         data disk

 Windows xp (32-bit)                                           No                                                    No

Windows vista SP1 or later (32-bit)                      No                                                    Yes

Windows vista SP1 or later (64-bit)                  Yes,with UEFI BIOS                             Yes

Windows 7 (32-bit)                                              No                                                    Yes

Windows 7 (64-bit)                                          Yes,with UEFI BIOS                             Yes

Windows 8 (32,64-bit)                                     Yes,with UEFI BIOS                             Yes

intel based Mac os x 10.6+                                   Yes                                                   Yes

Linux ubuntu 8.04+/SUSE x32,x64                       Yes                                                    Yes