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I don't think there is an upper limit on hard drive size. However, the Windows 9x family use FAT32 filesystem for the hard drives which limits file size to 4GB.

Windows 9x & XP cannot support memory (or RAM) larger than 4GB.

It's all to do with the 32bit operating system. 2^32 = 4294967296 (which is 4gb).

**Windows 9x does not support drives larger than 137 GB unless third-party software provided by the hard drive manufacturer is used (Andrews, Jean, "A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, sixth edition, comprehensive," 2007 Thomson Course Technology).

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