I have observed that WinXP only handles 4k disks correctly (on all my motherboards, so no bluescreen after first restart, not S-ATA) when updated to (I use @harkaz's patch packs) Unofficial SP4 - that is up to 2014, I believe. Of course I put his EOS SP4 also - to get systems to 2019 state and the two contain many useful fixes besides the official updates.