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I got myself an Intel 80286 based PC. It has 40Mb hard drive installed. What is the maximum hard drive capacity that this PC can handle?

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  • Depends on which OS you install.
    – r0ca
    Feb 2, 2011 at 21:38
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    why! I hope you aren't using that for anything serious..
    – Billy ONeal
    Feb 2, 2011 at 21:55
  • I once installed Vista on a 80286 with a 40mb hdd, and it run like lightning.
    – squareborg
    Aug 2, 2011 at 11:46
  • @Shutupsquare: Lol. Beginning with Vista, ACPI is a requirement. No 80286 PC ever had ACPI, 40MB hard drive (which wouldn't even begin to hold 1% of Vista's files) and lack of MFM/RLL/ESDI drive support aside.
    – LawrenceC
    Apr 13, 2014 at 14:13

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Hard to say exactly because the limit is partly BIOS based, but 504MB is a likely candidate.

Good article about the limits here:

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/bioslim.htm

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