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WD 4TB USB HDD not detected by Storage explorer & diskpart tho "Safely Remove Hardware" detects it

I'm not sure if the 4TB WD HDD I just got from Amazon is GPT or MBR partitioned but looks like the
driver was auto-installed Ok on my Win XP as "Safely Remove Hardware" detects it & I could 'Stop"
it from "Safely Remove Hdw".

However, using "Disk Management" & despite "Rescan Disks" & "Refresh", can't detect it.
in command prompt,  Diskpart's   "List disk" can't detect it too.

I have other 2TB disks which could be detected & formatted on this Win XP laptop.

How should I go about using this 4TB WD HDD?
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Ok, I'll try partition it on a Win 7 x64 laptop as 2x MBR partitions, then I try again on the XP:
I still want it to be able to work on a 32bit XP
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The moment I plug this WD into a Win 7 x64 laptop, it detects it as a 4TB NTFS partition:
so I repartition it into 2 partitions & format both partitions as NTFS : works fine on the
Win 7 but when I connect this WD to the Win XP, same status as what's observed
earlier ie can't see the partitions & diskpart can't see the WD too.

I have Paragon somewhere: is it called Paragon Partition Manager?  I think I have
on my XP  a Partition Magic : will this help?
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what happens if you format the partitions as FAT32?
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Not detectable even if it's FAT32
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Thanks chaps.  I'm still hunting for my Paragon PM .

Any freewares instead of this GPT Loader?  I found one freeware but it is specific to the motherboard used
which is no joy for me
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For a 32-bit Windows 7, would it detect it?   My office Win 7 laptops are on 32-bit
but I'll need permission to get the USB port enabled (to take backups or copy files)
so don't have a chance to test it out
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