Paul wrote:

There is a size limit, but it's complicated. For a modern
user of WinXP (say an SP3 installer CD) and a modern (just purchased)
computer, the limit is the limit caused by 32 bit sector numbers in
the MBR. That's 2.2TB. WinXP supports MBR and allows (easily) drives
with 2.2TB size. GPT partitioning allows larger disks and partitions,
but a later OS is needed.

Not necessarily. I use a 3TB external disk (actually two of them) with
an XP machine. I think that the first time you use it, it installs a
driver for the GUID partition system. After that, it works fine.

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Tim Slattery
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