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XPS 8700 - 4TB Hard Drive - WIndows 10 - Driver Install Issue
This is strange but perhaps someone else has seen this as well...
XPS8700 doing a clean install of Windows 10 on an XPS8700 with the factory 1TB as drive C.
Additional Drives are the CDROM drive and a new HGST 4TB drive.
I downloaded drivers to the 4TB drive. ALL drivers have the same issue:
IF from the 4TB drive I click on the driver executable, the decompress and run fails EVERY time, EVERY driver so far up to the video driver.
IF I copy the driver file to the 1TB OS drive (desktop) and click on it.... IT WORKS.
What gives?
Anyone know?
Thanks!
beamermt79
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July 21st, 2016 18:00
Hello! If memory serves me correctly, the XPS 8700 BIOS cannot fully read the 4tb drive as one whole drive, thus you have to partition it into 2 smaller drives. Try partitioning the drive into 2, 2TB paritions and see if that helps. I think the max for a lot of computers is 3TB?