XP-SP3 – Number of Files Limitation

I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
Thanks - Andy

Number of files??? no I don't think so. However if using the FAT32 file
structure, you are limited in partition size, if that is what your talking
about!

"Andrew" wrote:

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> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy
>

Andrew wrote:

> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy

If your drive is using the NTFS file system you can have more than 4.2
billion files. I don't think you will have any problems with the number
of files on your disk...

John

When's your homework due?

Andrew wrote:
> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy

Answer to part 2 - buy a bigger drive.

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Xandros


"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy
>

yes, add more storage.

Andrew wrote:

> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy
>

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:54:29 -0700, Andrew
<Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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> I am running XP Home, service pack 3. Is there a limit to the number of
> files on can have, if so, what is that number and how does one exceed it?
> Thanks - Andy


Are you asking about the number of files stored on all the disk drives
you have?

Yes, I'm sure there's a limit per drive. But I don't even know what it
is, since that limit is so large that none of us have enough disk
space that we have to be concerned about such a limit.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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