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Dont really care for the software that comes with it

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Quirk the data cable didnt fit that well into the unit it seemed loose and likely to fall out

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Bought the 5tb bp external hd midmarch specifically to transfer data off of an xp sp3 32bit system in order to upgrade without the concern of data loss despite being advised there was a newer model available the 6tb stdt6000100 for which however there was no xp support

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Somewhere along the way i realized however that as of this model stdt5000100 and moving forward you would need to use the paragon driver from seagate to read the full drive rather than xps native maximum of 2tb

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This has to do with seagate having switched over to gpt partitions from the previous mbr partitions the latter being native to xp sp3 32bit

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Older large external drives greater than 2tb were outfitted with a special bridge card enabling xp sp3 32bit to see the entire drive

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Long story short if youre running xp sp3 32bit youll need to reformat the drive which will only enable you to access 2

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If youre using xp sp3 64bit you should be able to read the entire drive without issue