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I'm afraid that with PAE the only way to overcome 4294967296 sectors of 512 bytes (2 TIB) is to modify the Paragon GPT Loader or creating a new GPT Loader.

That PAE that you have activated in XP SP3 is not functional. Microsoft disables PAE in XP SP2 , so the patches were created, with the intention of enabling it again.

I tell you once again that all this you suggest has already been tested and does not work. The solutions are written in the first entry of this post in which we are. The method that works we have already described. Please read the links published in the first post and you will find explanations and solutions. Regarding PAE and Windows 2000 there is no solution yet, so it is not published anywhere else.

Increasing the cluster size does not allow you to exceed the 2 TiB limit in either GPT or MBR. In MBR, to exceed this limit up to 16 TiB, you must increase the logical sector size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes. This requires hardware that performs the conversion in its firmware, which is not currently possible with IDE mode, much less with the Paragon GPT Loader. Here is a list of devices that support this with MBR. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186645-devices-list-compatibles-mbr-hard-disk-2tb

The PAE limit was commented by @Andalu on January 18, 2025 https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp-solved/page/27/#findComment-1276911 I ran the tests with @Dibya Path PAE and confirmed the results in the following posts. If you know of a PAE patch that works with GPT, please comment.

Hi, we've been working on these experiments for a while now. The +3TB solution from Gigabyte, Seagate, and others involves creating an additional virtual drive for capacities above 2 TiB. I don't recommend following the final link you posted to the Chinese solutions from 2011. That link recommends following all the incorrect steps we've already ruled out, which limit GPT to 2 TiB. Following those steps leads to data corruption starting at 2 TiB.

@Andalu I've found the reason why my partitions disappear when I start Disk Management in Windows XP. I initialize the hard disk as GPT, and the system automatically creates a partition called MSR. Since I don't want the characteristics of that partition, just like Bitlocker, I deleted it before creating new GPT partitions. Deleting the MSR partition isn't a problem in NT6-10, but in XP, if it's deleted, all GPT partitions disappear when I start Disk Management.

You must follow the exact instructions I provided in the links in the first post. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp-solved/ The version of Paragon GPT you need is 8.0.1.0, which is included in Paragon Partition Manager 15 Professional. It won't work properly if you're using an older version, and you won't be able to exceed 2 TiB if you're using a version higher than 8.0.1.0. Although solutions have also been discussed for this, the easiest way is to use the version I mentioned. It has also been mentioned that the system doesn't work with PAE enabled!!! There is currently no solution for this. With PAE, the limit without data corruption is 2 TiB. Without PAE, the theoretical limit is 256 TiB for SATA. Working with data disks initialized as GPT is solved. I have no experience with GPT boot disks in Windows XP. But @reboot12 recently claims to have succeeded. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp-solved/page/31/#findComment-1279892

Yes, I see it now in pag 2-20. PCI Express x16 graphic card inserted to the onboard PCI Express x16 slot may run only at x1 speed (Intel spec.). Make sure the installed PCI Express x16 graphic card support the downgrade x1 speed before you make a purchase. I don't know what the Intel specification is. I asked on Google Gemini (I left chatGPT for being a liar) and it says that Intel chipsets of that time only support 1x speed. I find that strange; I have an Intel Xeon i3000 (Mukilteo-2) (3000 series) (ICH7). GPU-Z and Aida64 say the speed is 16x; I'll try to run a more in-depth test. As a curiosity, I'll mention that the video card's bandwidth is 32-bit, and that when connected to Windows 2000-XP, the available RAM in Windows is limited to 2 GiB. While I don't have this limitation in Windows Seven and 10 x64.

Thanks for the research. Where are you reading this? "- a video card in the PCI-E x16 mechanical slot will run at 1x electrical" I can't find it in the motherboard manual. https://www.asus.com/sg/supportonly/p5m2sas/helpdesk_manual/ The BIOS has the following options: Initialize video card PEG/PCI PCI/PEG -Disable PEG. -Force 1x If I boot with the PEG/PCI option, the integrated graphics stop working in any operating system. (integrated graphics = PCI) In any case, virtual graphics cards aren't available either, so I'd rule out motherboard issues. I think the problem is with the operating system.

It is a Asus Server TS300-E4-PA4 with motherboard AsusP5M2. When I wrote RGB/S-Video in the outputs of the dedicated video card, Asus EN7300LE for HP with chip Nvidia GeForce 7300, I meant VGA/S-Video, I edited it for clarity.

I have a computer with four operating systems: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Seven Windows 10 And two video cards: an integrated ATI ES1000 and a dedicated Asus/Nvidia GeForce EN7300LE. The card works as a secondary card in all operating systems except Windows Seven. in which no monitor appears connected. I have a Sony Bravia TV connected to it via the VGA and S-Video outputs. Windows 2000 and XP allow me to clone the VGA/S-Video outputs with different resolutions using the Nvidia panel. Windows 10 restricts this to the same resolution, meaning the lowest S-Video resolution, and the option is not included in the Nvidia driver. The problem is that in Windows Seven, neither one nor the other is supported, no monitor appears connected. The driver is installed correctly and appears in the Device Manager. When I click on the Nvidia control panel this doesn't star, the following message appears: "Nvidia display settings are not available." "You are not using a display connected to an Nvidia GPU." If I right-click on the desktop and go to the screen resolution menu, only the monitor connected to the integrated card appears. -No other connected monitors appear in the device manager. -I've tried several monitors, and they don't appear either. -If I disconnect the integrated monitor and boot Seven with the dedicated card as the main card, it works perfectly, but then the integrated one stops working. -If I uninstall the NVidia driver and use the Microsoft driver for Nvidia nothing changes. -I've tried installing virtual video cards with virtual monitors, and the problem is similar. They appear in the device manager, but nowhere else. I can't install ATI cards because the drivers conflict with the integrated one.

This program in this post, Which is? https://msfn.org/board/topic/177176-mbr-gpt-drive-dissection/page/2/#findComment-1146865

My experience with openAI GPT-4 is that it invents most things. Just as it predicts the most logical word in natural language, it also predicts the most logical technical data, which leads us to mix philosophy with mathematics. If humanity relies on this without cross-checking the information, it will clearly lead to an evolutionary regression, in my opinion. I've managed to extract a lot of information from it, but after a lot of fighting, telling GPT-4 that it's false, that it's not like that, etc. Perhaps years ago I wouldn't have been able to obtain the information it has provided, and now I find myself needing to use it... because I have 3 computers, each with 4 operating systems, 10 browsers on each operating system, and 1,500 open tabs on each one, waiting to be read. Of course, I can't open a thousand more tabs to search for more information, so I struggle with chatGPT until it loops or I reach the point where chatGPT first tells me one thing, then another, and then tells me the first thing again. Since I realized everything was false regarding the sectors, here we are in this forum, reading starman's website, which is certainly more useful. The worst part is when I pass it machine code, it tells me to read it, but in reality, it's searching the internet for the result of reading a code different from mine. On starman's website, I read that both MBR and VBR are dynamic and modifiable by the operating system, so that question is resolved; I just need to know when they are modified. From what I read, in Windows there is a file with the MBR code called "dmadmin exe." I used the Active Disk Editor program, and it gave me the meaning of all the bytes in sector 0 MBR and sector 0 VBR. But it doesn't give any information about sectors 1 and beyond. I've seen a screenshot of another program on this forum that gives information about the bytes in sectors, but I don't know its name and I'd like someone to tell me. Wait a minute, I can't find the link now. I'll reboot with another operating system where I have this tab open. I'm currently on 7 because Active Disk Editor resets the disks when I open it in XP, even though the website says it's XP compatible. I'll reboot with XP and post back.

Which do you consider to be the best LLM for technical questions? Do you know of any programs that translate the binary/hexadecimal code of boot sectors? Thank you. I read that Sector Inspector and Active Disk Editor might do this.