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Phoenixed
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:32 am Post subject: Thank you Windows |
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Moved a hard drive to an USB enclosure and Windows decided to LOCK (or in its own words GPT Protective)my 3TB drive full of movies. Now I have to decide which ones to MANUALLY restore, through basically verbose commands, to a smaller hard drive and which ones will be deleted using the CLEAN command...
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fuchs
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Can't you put that drive back into a 64-bit machine and copy your things to another drive from there?
Then clean it and put it back in the USB enclosure.
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Spanky Ham
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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What fuchs said? Is it not accessible through a linux os?
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Phoenixed
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I appreciate the help, but I don't have a big enough drive to copy all of it nor enough drives. The drive is accessible, just not in the graphical sense. I am using a program called testdisk to restore the files, the ones I can anyways.
My understanding is that Windows during installation sees the drive, sees it uses GPT, then installs a unique identifier hash into the partition as a form of security. This I believe prevents Joe Blow from walking past a server and taking out a drive to view the data. I guess I could try gparted in Linux but I believe the unique hash will be an issue.
I could be completely wrong in my theory.
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Tom.W
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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What flavor of windows are you using ?
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Phoenixed
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Link Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Windows 8.
This has been an issue with Windows 7 when GPT partitions became more mainstream due to larger hard drives.
I mainly posted so everyone here is aware of the issue and to vent.
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the big E
Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.
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Link Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:33 am Post subject: |
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I never use the gpt format and don't recommend due to this very issue
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CasetheCorvetteman
Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6319 Location: Australia
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Link Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:25 am Post subject: |
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the big E wrote: | I never use the gpt format and don't recommend due to this very issue |
Errrmmm.... What???
Do you still roll with Windows XP too Evan???
Ive moved drives between PCs and not had that issue yet, youll have issues using a drive or array larger than 2TB if you dont step up.
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the big E
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Link Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:08 am Post subject: |
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CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | the big E wrote: | I never use the gpt format and don't recommend due to this very issue |
Errrmmm.... What???
Do you still roll with Windows XP too Evan???
Ive moved drives between PCs and not had that issue yet, youll have issues using a drive or array larger than 2TB if you dont step up. |
This is what happens when I don't get much sleep haha(DOH)
I stopped using xp when Microsoft dropped support but I do have a xp machine still(don't use it much)it may see more use now that I have a tech-2 for my caddie
I always use the defaults when formatting a drive unless it's for a ipod drive(have to have them unformatted)
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