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My Seagate works just fine - like others have said, it will not die. My WD's did, tho'.
Yeah, I guess this just goes to show that 64-bit computing is the computing of the future - at least the near future.
My Seagate works just fine - like others have said, it will not die. My WD's did, tho'.
Yeah, I guess this just goes to show that 64-bit computing is the computing of the future - at least the near future.
Seagate had a bad run of 2tb drives come out which decimated their reputation. Beyond that, their drives are reliable.
Talking about 64-bit computing, I wonder if this is the death-neel for 32-bit.
all my drives are seagate. i have 3. one is a hundred years old. if it dies now, i guess its had a good life.
It's apparently not just the OS that can be a problem but 99% of current BIOS's will not accept a drive over 2.1tb, they are looking to motherboards that load subsitute BIOS routines with the OS. This rules out most current mobo's.
3tb on XP, YES YOU CAN!
How To Use any and all (not external, sorry) 3TB Hard Drives On Windows XP
IT will work, it just can not be the boot drive or an external (USB, FireWire, etc.) Also RAID may not workAn alternative is an advanced partitioning scheme like GUID Partition Table (GPT) which can support 3TB volumes. The problem however is that GPT is not supported by Windows XP.
Paragon however came up with a solution. They basically create a specially signed driver to make Windows XP compatible with the GPT partitioning scheme. With this in place, Windows XP users can utilize the full storage of 3TB hard drives.
Seagate launches XP-supporting 3TB drive • The Register
This is only for Seagate drives, but you can boot form the drive (External may still not work, sorry.).Seagate aims to sell its 3TB whopper to them because the DiscWizard software makes the drive bootable and comes at no charge. You install the drive on your system, download the software from www.seagate.com/beyond-2TB, run the software and use it to configure the drive with a virtual device driver that makes it bootable from non-UEFI motherboards and by Windows XP. Seagate says there is no equivalent software available from the other 3TB drive suppliers, Hitachi GST and Western Digital. Their equivalent drives cannot be booted by non-UEFI motherboards, and only Hitachi GST provides XP support.