Ps, in win 7 os, it gets recognized in all usb 3.0 ports as well. However, the drive retails for 30 more than the regular passport model of the same storage capacity. Be advised that everything written through that secondary PCB card is encrypted and IF that card goes bad the data will not be retrievable although the drive may still work without it-needing to be completely reformatted and THEN won’t be compatible with XP if over 2TB. West digital hard drives, such as wd my passport for mac, wd elements, or wd easystore, are trusted by a large number of users to store the massive amounts of photos, videos. To maintain this comparability with XP, OSX, ext3… WD Externals have a secondary PCB controller card on those HDD’s. Usually i’ll create 3 equal size partitions-and do all of that on Windows 7.
I have used it but still prefer to let WD format the drive as MBR if it’s to be used on XP, I have 7 Pro 64, 10 Pro, Ubuntu, Debian and still somehow XP remains my main workhorse. Paragon makes an app that allows XP to process GPT & MBR HDD’s.
I have found WD’s quick format works pretty well. You have to initialize/format them with the right tools. This Western Digital easy store external hard drive has WD Discovery software for making the backup process easy, and the USB interface ensures universal compatibility. The 4TB capacity offers vast storage space, while the compact design increases portability. I’ve got 10 of them, the most recent 4TBs bought from Amazon today and working fine on XP. Back up important files with this black Western Digital easystore external hard drive. It’s been possible to format WD Externals 3,4,5+Tbyes for some years now.
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