Operating Systems > Windows XP (Oct 2001)

beware GPT partitions in windows XP!

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chrisNova777:
So i made a mistake recently i had formatted my gf's 1TB drive as GPT partition type
that was the reason i was unable to access the hard drive on a retro AMD Athlon X2 5600+ XP machine,
now that i moved all the data off the drive and repartitioned to MBR partition type + NTFS everything is working great in both XP + windows 11 (and presumably everything inbetween)

i had wanted to use ExFat for compatibility with all MacOS versions post SnowLeopard, but i forgot it was in GPT partition type which is fine on Any Win OS past Vista/Win7 but not fine on XP, even tho XP has exfat compatibility in SP3, it does not have GPT partition type compatibility so watch out for that!

a way for me to step around the Mac incompatibility of NTFS is to mount the external USB3 drive on my router which ahs a usb3 port for attached storage, any mac should be able to write+read from a NTFS drive that is network attached/shared

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