A great guy that posts here fzabkar sent me a PM with a couple of links that might help I’ll paste it in
I am aware of two ways in which other HDD manufacturers circumvent the 2TiB limit of Windows XP.
Seagate uses DiscWizard, an OEM version of Acronis Disk Director, to emulate two physical drives, 2TB plus http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/storage-peripherals
/2011/04/18/seagate-barracuda-xt-3tb-sata-6gbps-40092544/ (For some reason this link doesn’t work if you click on it but does if you copy and paste it in browser)
Hitachi gets around the problem with a GPT Disk Manager:
http://www.paragon-software.com/hitachi/
The trouble is you are adding hardware that didn’t exist when XP came out. You might also search for a third party format tool that runs from CD to format it for XP.
Joe
