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You have encountered the LBA28 barrier. Most computers manufactured before 2002 had a limit of 128 GiB, or approximately 137.4 GB.

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Q: You installed windows xp on your old computer you were using a external 250gb usb back up drive you have just mounted the drive in the computer as a primary drive but the drive is reading only 137gbs?
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