How can I get data from a working hard drive marked GPT protective partition?
Hello, my friends laptop (Loeno windows 8 64bit) charging port died. I am trying to copy the pictures over to my laptop (Dell windows 8 32bit) using an Apricorn HD adapter.
The disk loads in my Computer Manager and shows as Healthy (GPT Protective Partition) but is not accessible as a disk. All options except "help" are grayed out.
How can I get at those files? The drive is working perfectly, it's just the laptop cant start since there is no power.
Once we get the data off we will send it back for warranty repair.
Thank you,
Jacob Bushnell
The disk loads in my Computer Manager and shows as Healthy (GPT Protective Partition) but is not accessible as a disk. All options except "help" are grayed out.
How can I get at those files? The drive is working perfectly, it's just the laptop cant start since there is no power.
Once we get the data off we will send it back for warranty repair.
Thank you,
Jacob Bushnell
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Thank you, I'l ordering that adapter.
I just wanted to let you know I resolved the issue with this solution.
Turns out that GPT, being a new technology, was not compatible with my USB 2.0 SATA bridge as described above. So in my original attempt I had a brand new Seagate Firecuda docked using my v2.0 bridge, when copying it wrote the partition with MBR allocations even though I had selected GPT as partition type. Once you do this though, there is no way to re-initialise the drive to factory settings to start afresh.
I went and bought a new USB 3.0 bridge ("Dynamode") from CurrysPCWorld, transferred my old GPT internal drive into the new 3.0 external bridge housing, plugged it into USB and this allowed me to read my old drive via USB, as a GPT drive.
I then mounted the new Firecuda into my laptop and I used Command prompt to clean and format the drive. Windows Disk Manager options were then no longer greyed out and allowed me to start from scratch, partitioning the drive as GPT, assign drive letter etc.
I then copied (again) everything from my old drive via USB 3.0 to the Firecuda mounted as the new internal drive.
All running smoothly.
Turns out that GPT, being a new technology, was not compatible with my USB 2.0 SATA bridge as described above. So in my original attempt I had a brand new Seagate Firecuda docked using my v2.0 bridge, when copying it wrote the partition with MBR allocations even though I had selected GPT as partition type. Once you do this though, there is no way to re-initialise the drive to factory settings to start afresh.
I went and bought a new USB 3.0 bridge ("Dynamode") from CurrysPCWorld, transferred my old GPT internal drive into the new 3.0 external bridge housing, plugged it into USB and this allowed me to read my old drive via USB, as a GPT drive.
I then mounted the new Firecuda into my laptop and I used Command prompt to clean and format the drive. Windows Disk Manager options were then no longer greyed out and allowed me to start from scratch, partitioning the drive as GPT, assign drive letter etc.
I then copied (again) everything from my old drive via USB 3.0 to the Firecuda mounted as the new internal drive.
All running smoothly.
another way is to use the program gpt fdisk (free from sourceforge)
here is a great site explaining GPT. http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html
personally the Linux way is faster, and easier.
Good Luck
-=Richard