Windows xp hdd limitations

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If it's necessary, enter the credentials for a user account that has Administrator privileges. When a non-initialized disk is detected by Windows, the following window opens to prompt you to initialize the disk.

If you select this option, this hard disk will not be recognized by Windows versions earlier than and including Windows XP. Check the Disk Management window to verify that the disk is initialized. If it is, the status row for that disk at the bottom of the window should indicate that the disk is Online.

After the disk is initialized, you must create a partition, and then format that partition by using a file system. It's to be able to store data in that partition, and assign a name and a drive letter to that partition.

To do it, right-click the unallocated space on the right side of the status row for that disk, and then click New Simple Volume. Follow the steps in the partition wizard to complete this process. If you have previously initialized the disk by using the MBR partitioning scheme, follow these steps to initialize the disk by using the GPT scheme. In the Disk Management window, examine the disk status rows at the bottom. In the following example, the user has a 3-TB disk that was previously initialized by using the MBR partitioning scheme.

That device is labeled here as Disk 1. Disk 1 contains two separate unallocated sections. This separation indicates that the first 2 TB of the disk space can be used. However, the remaining space is non-addressable because of the bit addressing space limitation of the MBR partitioning scheme. To enable the system to fully address the total capacity of the storage device, you must convert the disk to use the GPT partitioning scheme.

Right-click the label on the left for the disk that you want to convert, and then click Convert to GPT Disk. Now that the disk is initialized to access the full storage capacity, you must create a partition, and then format that partition by using a file system.

Because the transition to a single-disk capacity of greater than 2 TB has occurred fairly recently, Microsoft has investigated how Windows supports these large disks. The results reveal several issues that apply to all versions of Windows earlier than and including Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and Windows Server R2 with Service Pack 1.

I'd like to "see" if it has more than one partition. However, I'm not clear as to whether this limit only applies to drives which must be bootable and maybe does not apply to drives used as storage only, as mine is. Now i want to ask, is my condition applies to 2TB limit. I want to put a 2 TB drive for only storage. Can anyone tell that if windows xp support it or not. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English.

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