Subj : 4TB HDD w/ XP
To   : Ed Vance
From : Kostie Muirhead
Date : Fri Aug 07 2020 17:27:57

  Re: 4TB HDD w/ XP
  By: Ed Vance to All on Fri Aug 07 2020 05:32 pm

 EV> Earlier I wrote about trying to use a 4TB External USB HDD with the XP pc.
 EV> I learned XP couldn't use it, so I used it with a computer with Vista on
 EV> it. 
 EV> I have wondered if before I had saved files to it on the Vista pc if XP
 EV> would had been able to use the Drive if I had used the Vista pc to
 EV> Partitioned it into Two 2TB sections?

Probably not. The >2TB drive size limit was typically a controller issue, not a filesystem issue.
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