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Replies 2 Views Proposed as answer by Martin G. It is connected via USB. As mentioned originally, I am accessing it apparently normally.
Thanks for any suggestions, opinions or whatever. I can write to it and read from it. Can anyone explain that? No one has yet. Saturday, August 13, PM. I believe you've got it. Here is a Western Digital forum post that explains it I think.
Evans 0. Hi Dick, Apologies for the delay responding. Wednesday, August 17, AM. Monday, October 21, AM. The MBR has 4 bytes to address sectors on a hard drive. At bytes per sector, that is 2TB. The last time I got a virus was on Windows If I run into any problems I have only to restore from the image and the system is as good as new in a couple of minutes.
The system is fast and never crashes. I also have more than programs installed. Many are old but indispensable and would likely never work on Windows 10, which I hate anyway. Of course I selected the latter and in a couple of minutes the job was done and the drive immediately showed up in disc management with a NTFS partition and 8 GBs of free space!
WD rules! Unfortunately I do not have any newer PCs with Windows 7,8, 10 etc. Unfortunately I have discovered that this is not actually the case, and working with support has been a huge exercise in frustration to say the least. Their confusing reply was kind of like a form letter, not directly answering my question if it even works or not, directing me to various links on their website on supposedly how to use the drive with XP, which suggested to me that it was at least possible to work with XP.
I did that and found what at first looked good in that that program which turned out to be version 2. OK, cool…. In My Computer if clicking on it it came back with message of drive not being formatted and asking me if I wanted to do that. I told it to go ahead. It showed the capacity as being 2. I wondered if now that WD Quick Formatter might run correctly and give me the option of XP compatible etc so I tried it again for the hell of it but it behaved exactly the same as b4, tried to format, did not give me the option of XP etc, and failed with the same error msg as the previous evening.
I have started the formatting again and it has been running for several hours now. Seems to me that this might be OK - how can I check the allocation unit size to verify this later? From reading above it sounds like the probs with these drives now is that the allocation table size and partition type are the big issues. Or perhaps do I just need to find the older versions mentioned above which work with XP?
Re-reading all the discussions above I believe balazar has actually answered my question above with this paragraph. I do want to ask, since the My Computer formatting has been going on now a long time again. Should I either abort that, or once it finishes, go and delete the partition and recreate it in Disk Management? Or is the My Computer format good enough? Dave, if Windows XP is able to see the drive and the partition there is a drive letter , then you should be good.
There would be no need to repartition in Disk Management. Formatting the drive with the default allocation unit size is always fine. A quick format would have sufficed.
A full format does take many hours. Windows XP is so long out of support that running today is fraught with peril.
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