Be advised that everything written through that secondary PCB card is encrypted and IF that card goes bad the data will not be retrievable although the drive may still work without it-needing to be completely reformatted and THEN won’t be compatible with XP if over 2TB. Newer WD SES Drivers are not available for manual download from Western Digital and are only available. The driver will be automatically installed when the drive is connected and detected by the computer if the drivers are not already installed. To maintain this comparability with XP, OSX, ext3… WD Externals have a secondary PCB controller card on those HDD’s. Western Digital products use drivers that are provided by the Windows and macOS operating systems. Usually i’ll create 3 equal size partitions-and do all of that on Windows 7. I have used it but still prefer to let WD format the drive as MBR if it’s to be used on XP, I have 7 Pro 64, 10 Pro, Ubuntu, Debian and still somehow XP remains my main workhorse. One of these items ships sooner than the other. Amazon Basics Small Hard Shell Carrying Case for My Passport Essential External Hard Drive 1 Pack. Paragon makes an app that allows XP to process GPT & MBR HDD’s. This item: WD My Passport for Mac Portable external Hard Drive, 2TB, USB-A ready. I have found WD’s quick format works pretty well. You have to initialize/format them with the right tools. I’ve got 10 of them, the most recent 4TBs bought from Amazon today and working fine on XP. It’s been possible to format WD Externals 3,4,5+Tbyes for some years now.
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