tbourner Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Need some help. We're running 32Bit versions of Windows 2003 Server, and we're soon to be testing 3TB drives and apparently 32Bit Windows can only address 2.2TB drives. Question is can we upgrade our software to 64Bit and use the current licence keys? Someone mentioned that XP home allows you to do this but wasn't sure about Server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonkin Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 As far as i know mate, you will need a 64 bit license key for 64 bit windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 You can convert the discs to GPT format as long as you've got 2003 SP1 minimum I believe, and it'll support over 2TB (we've got a few on 4TB). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx Windows Server 2003 SP1 also enables support for GPT in x86 versions of the Windows Server 2003 family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Plethora Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I cant say for sure with server but I think you will be ok. I had 2 keys for 32bit Vista, just downloaded an ISO of the 64 bit version and it worked just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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