Exceeding 2Tb limit questions

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If you connect your 3TB drive directly to a SATA port, as is , then I expect that Windows will report that it needs to be formatted. This is because it won’t find the boot sector in the right place. Furthermore, I expect that Disk Management will report that there is a single 375GB (= 349GiB = 3TB / 8) NTFS partition with the remainder of the drive being unallocated. However, that’s only speculation on my part, so your feedback would be most helpful.