Storage Solutions Anybody got a 3TB/4TB usb external HDD to work with winxp 32 bit ?

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Understand there is a BIOS limitation here for devices that are older than 2010 that does not allow them to work with HDD's larger than 2TB.

Older devices use MBR which means drives bigger than 2TB won't be recognised.

So anybody managed to get around this or is 2TB the max one can expect to reliably work with win xp 32 bit.

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I read around on the Internet and what I understood is that if you can attach your drive to a supporting OS first and then partition it into 2TB sizes and then convert those to MBR, your Win XP system will recognize it fine. You will just have to use a friend's computer first who has Win 7 installed. From personal experience my Seagate 3 TB external came partitioned as MBR and I had to convert it to GPT first so that I could see the remaining 1 TB of space.
Also I read at one of Tom Hardware's thread that some 3TB drives were launched that were compatible with Win XP 32 bit.
The fourth post in this thread tries to explain how they work - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/295845-32-external-limit
 
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