Windows XP32 and Raid0 2T limit?

Right, but are you trying to load Your operating system on it or just have 3TB worth of storage?

If You are trying to load you os onto it, then you will need a floppy drive to load the drivers for the raid setup ont the install.

XP doesn't have a limit to how much storage it can take, the 32bit and 64bit problem is just with 4Gb of ram, not hard drive space.

make sure you have the raid field set p in the system bios and have the raid setup set to boot.

Also in windows you may have to go to the disk mam ger to get the hard drives formatted and running properly.

Hope this helps

There is, sadly, no good way to do it.

The limitation is due to the partition table used on drives and is a per-volume limit. For each of the four primary partitions, the table has a 'start' and 'count' sector that defines that partition. If you multiply the maximum values that fit in those fields by the sector size, you get 2TB.

XP64, Vista, Windows 2003, and Windows 7 have support for GPT partition tables. Sadly, 32-bit XP does not.

There is a very ugly workaround, but I don't recommend it. XP Pro supports dynamic volumes, which takes multiple partitions and aggregates them into a single virtual volume. There are drivers that can make one volume look like two volumes for you to then use a dynamic volume to glue them back together.

So you would have two disks, which your RAID driver makes look like one. Then your "unRAID driver" would make this single RAID disk look like two disks to the operating system, each less than 2TB. You would then create a partition on each of those two unRAID drives and use dynamic volumes to form them back into a single volume. YUCK.