6TB HDD not displaying in Win XP 32 bit

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I just purchased a 6 TB HDD. The HDD is not showing in Win XP 32 bit “My Computer”.

I am aware of limitation of XP 32 bit in that it can detect only 2 TB drives.

However I am not able to format the 6 TB to 3 x 2TB logocal drives.

Hard disk is getting detected through WD raid manager & already configured for RAID0 mode.

The drive is also getting detected in WD data lifeguard diagnostics.

My 6 TB HDD is not getting detected by Windows disk management console

However if I connect my other 2 TB WD My Book HDD, it gets detected by windows all right, indicating USB port & drivers are working all right.

Has anyone been able to configure the drive to be detected in Win XP 32 bit?

Regards,

SP

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Chances are the drive only has two 3TB HDD inside

Any reason why you stick to an obsolete OS?

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I have lots of applications & scripts running in my XP machine & do not want to go through the time consuming process of building a new system from scratch.

Not to mention, I will have to check first if the scripts run o the newer OS.

Also, before switching over to latest OS, I wanted to make sure that there is no resolution to the issue in XP