How Many Hard Drives Can Windows 7 Support?
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System >2-TB single disk – MBR
Windows 7 Supports up to 2 TB of addressable capacity**
Windows Vista Supports up to 2 TB of addressable capacity**
Windows XP Supports up to 2 TB of addressable capacity**

Can Windows 7 support 4TB hard drive?

Windows 7 supports 2+TB drives just fine, they just have to use GPT and not MBR due to MBR being limited to 2TB partitions. Same for if you wanted to use the drive as a boot drive, you would absolutely HAVE to use GPT and be on a UEFI system (which you are with that z87 board).

How many hard disks can be connected to a system?

From operating system perspective there are no limitation on how many drives you can attach. In Windows you can have up to 26 drives mapped to a drive letter and some users are very close to this limit:

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