Subj : Re: 4TB HDD w/ XP
To   : Ed Vance
From : Kostie Muirhead
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 22:41:23

  Re: Re: 4TB HDD w/ XP
  By: Ed Vance to Kostie Muirhead on Mon Aug 10 2020 09:30 pm

 EV> Thank You for educating "Ed".
 KM>> Probably not. The >2TB drive size limit was typically a controller
 KM>> issue, not a filesystem issue. ===
 EV> A long time ago I got a 3TB WD External HDD for this XP pc.
 EV> Could XP see a 3TB HDD or is 2TB the limit as You wrote earlier.
 EV> Thanks, 73 de Ed W9ODR

You'd likely be able to read one 2tb partition on the drive under XP if the
sata controller itself supports drives over 2tb (if not it just won't show up at all), but to partition anything over 2tb on a drive you need to use GPT instead of MBR formatting, and the earliest OS that will read a GPT/GUID drive is Vista on the consumer side, and Server 2008 on the Enterprise side.

Hope that helps!
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