MBR on large disk - possible problems?

fonon

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Hello,
There are conflicting opinions about the possibility of installing the MBR partition on disks with a capacity greater than 2TB. Most authors claim that this is impossible without losing a part of the capacity of the medium. Others believe that you can exceed this barrier under certain conditions, but there is a risk of data loss due to software that does not include non-standard solutions. I divided the 4TB drive into 4 primary partitions, the last of which has a beginning below the 2TB limit. The operating system correctly recognizes this partition, saves and reads the data. Do I have anything to fear?
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fonon

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As I wrote, full capacity of 4TB disk (and probably larger disks) may be accessed in some cases.

The MBR standard is old but not well described. The problem I am writing about may not have a broad practical meaning today, but in some cases it does. So, if someone has practical experience ...