“Does it work with Windows vista? bec it's saying only compatible with Win 10, 8.1 or 7, if so, will it show the entire capacity of 8GB as one partition. I only want to copy,cut, paste videos,music,pictures to it.”
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I don't remember what the maximum capacity of Windows Vista is but I know that it is less than 8TB, I think it was 4TB, but can't remember for sure that has been so long ago. Another item worth noting is that chances are pretty high that the Western Digital software won't work as well. Additionally it is worth noting that Windows Vista also doesn't support USB3.0 so you'll be stuck to USB2.0 speeds, (480 megabits) which is quite slow, especially when you're looking at filling this large of a volume, in the perfect lab conditions, it would take over 42 hours to transfer 8TB, however, in real world circumstances it would take double that time, now couple that you're dealing with really old hardware so your speed will be impaired even more, I would not recommend this hard drive for use with Windows Vista
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It should work fine. They only list Windows 7+ because Vista is no longer in its supported lifetime whereas 7 and newer are still in some form of being supported. The partition will show as @ 7.28tb (8tb formatted).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes it should you have have to use software to let it see larger than 2TB. I think vista can only see 2TB natively but WD has software that will let it see more. It might even be on the drive. After reading it does look like it will support it. Here is a link. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2581408/windows-support-for-hard-disks-that-are-larger-than-2-tb
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Windows Vista supports GPT partitioned disks (required for partitions greater than 2TB) so it should be able to see the full disk
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You should not be using Vista. Microsoft is no longer support it. I am pretty sure Vista can only see 4tb or less. I might be wrong though.
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