Paragon Software Supports 3TB+ HDD as Secondary Drive

Paragon Software Group (PSG) announced a migration technology – Paragon GPT Loader for Windows XP. The technology helps Windows XP users gain full access to all 3TB+ hard disk drives as secondary drives in the system and, consequently, increases PC hard disk drive capacity.

Hardware manufacturers are producing disk drives with geometric increases in disk capacity compared to a few years ago, broadening their appeal and functionality for a wide spectrum of end users. The new 3TB and larger drives – for storing sizeable files such as HD-video, archived images and music in lossless compression format – can be used as external storage devices alongside desktops and laptops, or inserted inside workstations and home computers. As opposed to modern Vista and Windows 7, older Windows XP, do not support hard disk drives larger than 2TB, recognizing only 2³² sectors of the disk, or 2TB (2048GB) of data.

Previously, Windows users
who wanted a new 3TB+ drive had two options:

• The first, simply plugging the drive into the computer and using the 3TB+ drive as a 2TB drive, meant paying for storage that could not be utilized.
• The second, upgrading a well-tuned and familiar OS to Windows 7 in order to make GPT partitions on the new 3TB+ drive, meant risking a hardware upgrade, if the computer did not have the performance level for the new OS. Paragon Software, however, has developed a cost- and resource-effective third option: the use of a specially designed driver, Paragon GPT Loader, which adds the functionality to support the GPT partitioning scheme to grant full access to large hard disk drives under Windows XP.

To read a white paper on Paragon GPT Loader for Windows XP

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