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gundar

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#191184 27-Jan-2016 06:59
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Hi

 

I moved continents. Before I did that, I put all my important data onto USB disks, three of them each the same, and packed them each in different boxes.

 

Smart, huh?

 

Yeah, nah. I used Windows 7 x64, GPT format, robocopy. Nothing unusual. After that, I reformated the PCs and sold off all the excessive gear, so I only have these three disks, now. When I got here, I bought a new laptop, plugged n the disks and I now have 'GPT Protective Partition' as the partition type and I am unable to do anything. All options are greyed out in Windows and Linux reports a corrupted GPT partition.

 

How do I get to access the data on each disk? I figured this was a simple process and one I took pains to make sure everything would be simple.

 

For reference, these disks are over 2TB, so I cannot follow the recommended process of convert to MBR....

 

Any help appreciated...

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Gund


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gundar

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  #1488506 10-Feb-2016 04:19
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Ok, as suggested in other forums I read through, the fix was to put the disks into a desktop that could handle more than 2TB and thereby remove the USB-SATA convertor, so any modern-ish desktop. I'm still not sure how this fixed anything and I really have doubts that GPT protective partition is actually an error or maybe it's just some misleading message....

 

 


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