Access a 3tb (GPT) disk from Windows XP?

[NeilF]

OK, I've got a 3TB drive partitioned. If I put it on my Windows XP system it cannot see it.

Is there a simple way of allowing it to access these parition/drive?

note: If I run Disk Director it can see the partition, but shows it's not available to the OS!

 

[NeilF]

Yes, I've found this out now

Just hoping someone has a first hand recommendation. eg: The Paragon GPT Loader!

 

[NeilF]

BTW, looks like Paragon GPT loader doesn't support external disks...

Noooooooo!

My plans ruined

 

[NeilF]

You can make MBR Disk support disks larger then 3TB

Stelly

How do I make MBR disks support 3TB?

Ideally I simply want a 3TB drive in my USB craddle that I can plug into either my Vista 64 or XP 32 system, and access it (read/write etc).

I don't care what format the drive is...

Can even split it up into partitions if that helps!?

 

[NeilF]

^^ I'll take that silence as meaning in fact you can't support 3tb via MBR. ie: Access 3TB from Windows XP 32bit natively.



Anyway, I think the safest way to go is to just format my 3tb drives to MBR meaning they will only use 2.2tb (instead of about 2.7tb). So I'll lose about 500GB, but at least have drives that can be natively supported on both my machines (Windows XP 32bit & Vista 64bit).

As/when my old XP system goes, I'll change them back to GPT to get full usage.

 

[NeilF]

Oh for crying out loud!

Even with the 3tb drive formatted to 2tb MBR, Windows XP cannot see it.

Disk Director 11 can happily see it etc, but Windows refuses to see this drive in the USB craddle.

Put in a nice 2tb drive, and up it pops. Put the 3tb drive in (formatted to 2tb) and nothing!

Computers!!!!!