Problem: Motherboard BIOS recognizes a new 3TB hard disk drive, but Windows XP does not.
OS: Windows XP SP3
This is an old XP box I'd like to keep running a bit longer. My secondary 2TB physical drive ('D') crashed, and I forgot about XP's 2TB limit when I shopped for a new drive, and I bought a 3TB drive. When I boot the computer after installing the 3TB drive, BIOS finds the hard drive, but in Windows XP, the drive letter does not even show. After rebooting, the new 3TB drive does show up in Device Manager (but not in Windows Explore, so it cannot be accessed.)
I have found a bunch of various 'solutions' by searching, but most are concerned with getting a brand new drive to operate, and include partitioning and formatting that obviously cannot be done on my new drive that is already formatted and partitioned and has probably 1TB of data moved onto it.
Does anyone know of a non-destructive way to get XP to see a 3TB drive?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Dennis