4 TB HDD formatted with MBR?

[Mr Wolf]

Hi all!
Some months ago, I bought a Seagate STDR4000200 Backup Plus 4 TB HDD: I deleted the original partition and encrypted the whole disk with VeraCrypt (NTFS).
Incidentally, yesterday I read that MBR can't manage partitions larger than 2 TB, and that I should use GPT.
I checked my HDD, and it's actually formatted using MBR.
Here's a screenshot:


How is this possible?
I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. Never had a problem.
The only issue is with Windows XP, with which the HDD is not recognized.

Thanks in advance.

[Alex]

Strange. MBR with 512 bytes sector supports 2TB only. if sector is 4096 bytes it can be. But VeraCrypt does not support 4K sector size

[Mr Wolf]

Thanks for your answer. (Sorry, I posted a wrong photo earlier. Now I corrected it)
In the program I use (MiniTool Partition Wizard), it says it's formatted 512 bytes per sector.

Could it depend somehow on the box, instead of the HDD itself?

[Alex]

You encrypt enire drive. The disk does not contain any partitions table. Data is started from sector 0.

[Mr Wolf]

So, it's ok? :)

[Alex]

Probably - yes.

Details: Disk MBR structure is 2TB limited because sector address is 32 bit. (512 * 2^32 = 2TB). Windows internal structures use 64 bit address.

[Mr Wolf]

Thanks! :)