Luckily, a fair number of us are moving to more modern operating systems. I'd bet at least some of us are already downloading the new Windows 7 Release Candidate on torrent search engine http://www.picktorre... while reading this very article. Using larger capacity drives is a non-event under these newer systems, as they can speak the proper 48-bit LBA language required for larger devices, and GPT is already in place to support partition sizes exceeding the old MFT limit of 2TB.