Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, and ME can support a maximum of 26 drives or logical partitions. Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, and 7 can support several thousand drives / partitions in a system.
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Windows 95 does not have explicit support for SSDs (Solid State Drives). This means it will not perform as well as operating systems that do support them will, and that the drive may wear out prematurely.
There can be any number of drives in Windows Explorer. The minimum number of drives is one (for the primary partition Windows is installed on).
Windows 2000 has no native support for SATA drives. If you have a slipstreamed CD with service pack 4, and the drivers for the SATA controller, you can install it. If not, you will have to run the SATA controller in emulation mode, so that Windows 2000 thinks that it is an IDE drive.
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Windows XP does not "have" a hard drive. The hard drive is a part of the computer, not Windows XP. Windows XP supports only IDE drives natively, although OEMs can also include drivers to support SATA drives.
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Yes. Windows Vista includes native support for SATA drives.
Windows Vista does not officially support booting from a FAT32 drive, although it is technically possible. Vista supports FAT32 on Flash drives and hard drives, although it will not format a hard drive over 32 GB as FAT32.
Any external hard drive that presents itself as a standard USB Mass Storage device should work in Windows ME. This is about 95% of the drives on the market. Note that large hard drives may perform very slowly with the FAT32 file system, and Windows ME does not support NTFS.
You can have a maximum number of 26 drives / partitions in Windows 95, one for each letter of the alphabet. A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives. The rest (C: through Z:) can be used for hard drives, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and other storage devices.