HP Mini dc7700 tower 4.3 PATA Device Information, 4.4 ATA SMART Drives, 4.5 Hard Drive Capacities

Serial and Parallel ATA Drive Guidelines and Features

4.3 PATA Device Information

The USDT model is the only product that supports a PATA optical drive. No PATA drives are supported on any other model.

4.4 ATA SMART Drives

The Self Monitoring Analysis and Recording Technology (SMART) ATA drives for the HP Personal Computers have built-in drive failure prediction that warns the user or network administrator of an impending failure or crash of the hard drive. The SMART drive tracks fault prediction and failure indication parameters such as reallocated sector count, spin retry count, and calibration retry count. If the drive determines that a failure is imminent, it generates a fault alert.

4.5 Hard Drive Capacities

The combination of the file system and the operating system used in the computer determines the maximum usable size of a drive partition. A drive partition is the largest segment of a drive that may be properly accessed by the operating system. A single hard drive may therefore be subdivided into a number of unique drive partitions in order to make use of all of its space.

Because of the differences in the way that drive sizes are calculated, the size reported by the operating system may differ from that marked on the hard drive or listed in the computer specification. Drive size calculations by drive manufacturers are bytes to the base 10 while calculations by Microsoft are bytes to the base 2.

Drive/Partition Capacity Limits

			Maximum Size
File	Controller
System	Type	Operating System	Partition	Drive
FAT 32	ATA	Windows 2000/ XP	32 GB	2 TB
NTFS	ATA	Windows NT/2000/XP	2 TB	2 TB

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