Reformatting a WD advanced format drive that's previously been aligned to XP to work on Windows 7 should work, right?

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Been considering picking up this drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236603&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= to replace my old one. I understand my installation Windows XP SP2 installation disc should work fine as long as I run WD Align software utility afterwards.

But I'm wondering if this will cause any problems if I try to switch to Windows 7 at a later date. I was already planning to copy everything I wanted to save to an external HDD and reformat this one when installing 7 anyway, so that should work out...right?
 
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Windows 7 will align the drive for you if you format it(it just starts the partition a small bit over).

If you have Windows 7 on another system you can even just format it in Win7 and it will be aligned and should work with XP.

If you get a drive over 2tb, you will have other considerations for using it with XP. At your current capacity as long as your board supports it, you are good to go.
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Windows 7 will align the drive for you if you format it(it just starts the partition a small bit over).

If you have Windows 7 on another system you can even just format it in Win7 and it will be aligned and should work with XP.

If you get a drive over 2tb, you will have other considerations for using it with XP. At your current capacity as long as your board supports it, you are good to go.
 
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