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    Feb 27, 2011, 01:17 PM
    Hard Drive Size Limit for Dell Motherboard 9C475 (Optiplex GX200)
    I can't find this info anywhere.

    Please help...
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    Feb 28, 2011, 06:45 PM
    UPDATE:

    Since I was unable to find this info online, I just tested it myself using different size primary partitions to simulate various size HDDs.

    For anyone that may be interested, this Dell motherboard, used along with XP (prior to SP3), can only handle an 80GB HDD.

    However, XP SP3 operates fine on this mobo with a 320GB HDD. It may even go higher, but I had enough testing at this point.

    Cheers...
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    Mar 1, 2011, 06:20 AM

    Thank You for the update! Do you have an option to close the thread? (to prevent members from posting on it 4 years from now ;) )
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