We tested the Barracuda XT thoroughly both as the main hard drive and the secondary hard drive of the test machine and it offers very good performance for a hard drive, though quite far behind an SSD. If you feel this is too much work, however, you can avoid this by using the 2TB version of the Barracuda XT.
While this may seem a little confusing to those unfamiliar with the process, it's the easiest way for Windows XP to take advantage of a 3TB hard drive. The third 0.73TB partition belongs to the second "physical" drive. In the end, we ended up with three separate partitions: the bootable 0.73TB (for the OS) and the 1.3TB are on the first "physical" hard drive. The only way to use this space is to turn it into another 1.3TB partition, which we did. However, the 0.73TB partition (aka logical drive) that hosted the operating system was considered part of the 2TB drive and it wasn't possible to extend it to take over the rest of the unallocated space. After that, the hard drive was now recognized as two separate hard drives as described above.
#Seagate disk maintenance utility barracuda xt install
We proceeded normally and waited till the installation of the operating system was complete to install DiscWizard. When we tried making the 3TB Barracuda XT the main hard drive of the computer, the installation process of Windows XP again saw it as one hard drive of just 0.73TB. These drives could then be formatted and used just like any other hard drives of those capacities. Once DiscWizard had been installed on the system, however, Windows XP now recognized the 3TB Barracuda XT as two separate hard drives of 0.73TB and 2TB. When used as the secondary hard drive, the 3TB Barracuda XT was initially recognized as a 0.73TB drive by Windows XP.
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