Will my PC support HDD greater than or equal to 2TB external storage?

mpadhu · Nov 12, 2014

Hi Friends,

I have a old PC which runs Windows 7 32 bit. Below are basic configuration of my PC. The link provided contains a file with a detailed report of my PC. Please let me know if my PC can support 2TB, 3TB and 4TB external hard disks via USB. Please let me know which of these HDDs will be supported by my PC. Thanks in advance.

OS: Windows 7 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 bit Processor 3200+ 2.00GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR1
Motherboard: ASUS A8V-VM

Detailed Report:
PC's detailed report from CPUID

ijuro · Nov 12, 2014

I don't see any problem in it. I have an old pc with 2 gb RAM, 1TB HDD and 2.20 GHz cpu. Maybe it can be little slower but it should work fine.

boosted1g · Nov 12, 2014

If you want to boot with this drive then you will have some issues to address.

If you just want to use it as a storage drive then you just need to partition it and will be good to go.

mpadhu · Nov 12, 2014

I'm not going to use it for booting. I will be just using it as an external storage. Planning to get a 3TB disk. I have heard something like MBR of the motherboard should support the storage capacity of the HDD. I'm not sure what does it mean. I'm afraid that this would create some problem.

boosted1g · Nov 13, 2014

Make sure you installed your chipset driver from ASUS for the motherboard.

When you plug the drive it may already be set as a gpt drive, if not just follow these intructions:
http://www.amazon.com/Tempa-Dot-Disposable-Thermometer-Sterile-Box/dp/B0008GCVSA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415710726&sr=8-1&keywords=tempadot

After that you can go into disk management and create your partition and assign it a drive letter.
Easiest way to get to disk management is open start menu, right click on computer, click manage, click disk management on the left

mpadhu · Nov 26, 2014

Thanks for your replies.

I am currently using 1TB HDD since long time without any issues.

so can I partition a 4TB HDD into four 1TB drives and use it?. Will my PC detect it?

mpadhu · Nov 26, 2014

boosted1g :

Hi. I think you have provided a wrong link. :??:

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