What Is the Largest Hard Drive Windows 7 Will Recognize?
Contents 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**...
| 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** |
Will Windows 7 recognize a 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).
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Does Windows 7 recognize GPT?
GPT is an updated and improved partitioning system and is supported on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. GPT offers several advantages over MBR: In Windows, GPT can support up to 128 partitions.
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