Big_Dave,
Thanks for the help and response. Your expertise is appreciated.
Just to be clear, what I'm trying to do is add at least one 4-6 tb SATA drive to an HP xw8400 workstation. The drive will be used as a regular single drive not in a RAID configuration of any kind. This will not be a boot drive, only a secondary data drive. Currently Windows 10 Pro 64-bit is only allowing 1677.90 gb to be used.
According to the Intel Driver Update Utility, this system needs needs the Intel Chipset Device Software updated from 10.0.10 to 10.1.1.1. After doing further research this update appears to enable GPT support for larger drives. However, when I run this installer, I receive an "unknown error" apparently because Intel has not yet updated the Chipset drivers for Windows 10.
(1) Is there any way to currently get this larger drive working in an HP xw8400 as is?
(2) If not, is there an add-on card that would add this functionability to this machine?
(3) Is it possible that Intel could update their chipset drivers to allow the use of larger drives in Windows 10 in the future or is this a limitation of the hardware?
(4) If I reverted back to Windows 7, would larger drives be usable with this OS in an HP xw8400?
Again, thanks for the help. We're evaluating out options at this point.
