On 4/25/2020 9:52 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":

 EV> One of the many many mistakes I've made using computers was
 EV> when I saw a very good price for a 4TB WD My
 EV> Passport "External" HDD and bought it.

What's the mistake in that?  4TB is fine hdd to have!


 EV> When I connected the 4TB'er to the XP Desktop, XP never saw
 EV> it.

This has something to do with XP being 32-bit and therefore only capable of
addressing a 2TB partition, max.


 EV> The Vista Home Basic Notebook saw it just fine.

Hmmm..  Is/was the Vista = 64bit OS?


 EV> Now I'm not so sure I want to take those Files off either
 EV> one of those 2TB Drives.

You've got some decisions to make.  ;)

Cheers,
  ..A

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