A:AnswerThis drive comes initialized as an NTFS drive which post dates XP and is not recognized by XP. You would have to reinitialize it as an MBR drive and then reformat it but the problem is that XP can only address a maximum disk size of about 2TB. There used to be ways of tricking XP into being able to use all the space on 3TB and 4TB drives by creating additional partitions but I don't know if that works anymore. Basically, I would not recommend buying this drive for use on Windows XP.
A:AnswerWindows 7, sure. You might need to an x64 system in win7 not x86 to read 7.68tb (8tb formatted).
Win XP, nope. But if you want to do something like back data up, you can network the XP and Win7 system to your network router or a $10-20 unmanaged 4-8 port switch.
Then you can keep the drive on the x64 win7 machine and use network sharing from the XP system to the win & system.
make a user named test, ps 1234, etc, on both machines. log in to both. make sure each system is on a domain(network) named, WORKGROUP as it usually is.
Share the new 8tb drive as say x y or z as it's letter. plug in the drive into the win7 x64 system, right click my computer, manage. right click the usb drive and change drive letter to one of those last unused letters.then in the options allow read and write to it.
sometimes in networking you have to tweak a bit for XP to be able to talk to win8,8.1, or 10, but 7 x64 is easy with xp.
either do all of that, or just buy a 256gb usb3 key on sale and move data like that.
A:AnswerYes, you can back up your Android phone, but I do it through my desktop computer. Can't comment on XP, but I supect it would work.
I don't use the back-up software, I just copy files to it so I can access individual files if I want.
A:AnswerIt will but you will need to format it first in xp. See my other answer here on using with xp for details. I have the larger 10TB drive working in xp. :)
A:AnswerXp is a windows operating system and so are windows 7 or 8 or 10 they are all windows operating system and they normally use NTFS format. If you do NTFS you can use the drive among all windows operating system.....now if you own a Mac and a Windows and want to use the same drive you might have to use third party software to use either NTSF or HSF+ (you have to pick one and find the third party app to use on the off format pc)....
