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   08-10-20 22:41 Kostie Muirhead wrote to Ed Vance about Re: 4TB HDD w/ XP   
   Howdy! Koastie,   
      
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    KM>   Re: Re: 4TB HDD w/ XP   
    KM>   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   
      
    KM> You'd likely be able to read one 2tb partition on the drive under XP if   
    KM> the sata controller itself supports drives over 2tb (if not it just   
    KM> won't show up at all), but to partition anything over 2tb on a drive   
    KM> you need to use GPT instead of MBR formatting, and the earliest OS that   
    KM> will read a GPT/GUID drive is Vista on the consumer side, and Server   
    KM> 2008 on the Enterprise side.   
      
    KM> Hope that helps!   
      
   From reading BBS messages about Computer stuff (and reading some other web   
   sites) I learned some of the TechSpeak but haven't read about GPT.   
      
   I guess it has something to do with the newer Motherboards which replaced   
   the CMOS Chip with a more improved circuit.   
   I can't remember what the newer Chip on the Motherboards is called.   
      
   I've read about MBR (iirc Master Boot Record) being used on pc HDD using the   
   FAT, FAT32 and NTSC systems on the computers that I have here, I'm a BIT   
   UnEDucated on the later hardware.   
      
   Got this XP in 2006, I waited some time to see if there were lots of   
   complaints about XP before I wanted to buy one.   
   The Scotchman part of Me says wait before spending any money, You know how   
   that is, don't You?   
      
   I like to learn by reading about other peoples experiences before jumping in   
   with both feet into something new to Me.   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR                          .                          .   
      
      
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