what is system requirements for 4tb hard drive

At least Win7 and a recent Mobo BIOS.

Not sure if your still researching this. Just FYI,.. the response from spooky2th and jsmithepa are both WRONG. You do NOT need an UEFI equipped motherboard to use a 4TB hard drive. Configure your system in the following way and you can use a 4TB drive without any issues.

You can read through thousands of posts on the net if you like. The following is the simplest and best solution when you have an older computer like yours and want only one drive,.. and the entire drive capacity is 4TB.

I’ve read hundreds of posts in hundreds of forums on the topic. Forget what all the thousands of misinformed computer wiz kids will tell you. YES,.. you can install a 4TB hard drive on any older standard BIOS MBR booting computer (like yours). It’s easy and works fine. The only prerequisite is that you can install Windows 7 64 bit on your system. (32bit Windows will not work with this method) Don’t worry about what kind of BIOS it has. Did I already mention this,… DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE BIOS. So long as you can install 64 bit Windows 7 (which uses MBR booting). Forget all the naysayers. There are some that will argue the sequence and method. Save yourself a lot of frustration. Here’s how it’s done.

ALL THIS MUST BE DONE ON AN EMPTY 4TB HARD DRIVE.

1) Download a Linux mint live CD from any running Windows system and burn the ISO to disk.
2) Now boot your computer (with the empty 4TB drive) using the Linux mint live CD.
3) When you’re fully in Linux mint, run GPARTED and partition the drive as follows.
4) Make a primary MBR partition of your choice to install Windows. Format the partition NTFS (4096 blocks). THERE ARE TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER HERE. READ CAREFULLY. Your first primary partition should NOT be larger than 1.8TB. (about half the drive). DO NOT MAKE IT LARGER THAN 1.8TB! It can be smaller,.. but NOT larger than 1.8TB if you want only two partitions on the entire drive.
5) In Gparted,..set your first partition to “active”
6) Now again in Linux mint Gparted,.. make another primary partition that will take up the remainder of the drive. The MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the last partition MUST STARTED BEFORE THE 2TB point. I’ll say it again,..”BEFORE THE 2TB POINT”. So if your first partition was 1.8 as I suggested,.. you’ll be fine.
7) Format the second hard drive NTFS. (4096 blocks)
8) Apply all changes to the drive in Gparted. The drive is now ready to use.
9) Now boot from your Windows 7 64 bit installation disk. Windows will see both partitions. Leave partitions “as is” and install to the first partition.

There you go. You’ve made a 4TB drive totally usable in an older BIOS MBR booting system. The entire TB drive is usable (actual size of the entire drive will be around 3.6TB because of the way Windows formats with 4096 blocks).

Final notes. You can also have 3 partitions with a 4TB drive if you like. SO LONG AS THE LAST PARTITION IS STARTED BEFORE THE 2 TB POINT. I format my 4TB drives with 3 partitions this way;
First primary partition 1GB (.1 TB) for Windows 64 bit install.
Second primary partition 1.7TB.
Third primary partition all the remaining space on the 4TB drive.
The entire drive has been utilized.

All this will ONLY work on the 4TB drive. The same can not be done (without wasting space) on a 5TB drive.

A Windows 7 booting system with a 4TB drive with no wasted space on an older BIOS MBR booting computer,..YES YOU CAN. Exactly the way I’ve specified.