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I'm supposed to be building a new PC for a friend just as soon as he can get off the can and buy a graphics card and operating system. The motherboard is one of my old ones an ASUS P5Q, which has a legacy BIOS and can no longer be upgraded. I told him to go ahead and buy a new motherboard, and I'd assemble it for him. He wants to opt out for the free, old motherboard. The only problem is that he has gone out and purchased a 4 TB hard drive, which is not compatible with my old legacy motherboard. I have heard that if you set up a master boot record (MBR), the PC will only see 2 TB of that 4 TB hard drive. The old ASUS is not configured to be set up for the new GPT (GUID Partition Table). I told him to return the hard drive to Amazon and get his money back and go buy a 1 or 2 TB hard drive at Best Buy. He won't do that. I know there is a Disk Wizard app that can fool Windows 8.1 into recognizing 4 TB. Now, my friend has thrown me a curve in that he wants me to set up the PC to dual boot Win 95, Win 98, Win XP all 32 bit OS's, and Win 8.1 all in 1 TB partitions. The dual booting can be set up, but I doubt whether 95, 98, or XP will even recognize a terabyte, much less 500 gigabytes.
Any of you computer brains have any thoughts about my dilemma regarding the hard drive?
Any of you computer brains have any thoughts about my dilemma regarding the hard drive?