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WD 6TB SATA HDD partially recognized by Windows 11

Started by Lilium , Jan 23 2024 10:57 PM

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#1 Lilium

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Posted 23 January 2024 - 10:57 PM

Hello,

Two WD 6TB SATA HDDs (model # WD60EZRZ-00RWYB1) that were internals of a previous Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Edition rig and connected as externals in a new Windows 11 x64 Home Edition Version 23H2 Build 22631.3085 rig are only recognized by diskmgmt.msc as GPT and not NTFS partitions. Neither are recognized by Windows Explorer.

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Additionally, Windows 11 is incorrectly stating their capacities as approximately 16TB each. I'm using a Sabrent docking station (model # EC-DFLT) and multiple other SATA (WD 500GB [model # WD5000AADS] & WD 320GB [model # WD3200AAKS]) and SSD (Samsung EVO 850 & OCZ 120GB Agility 3) from the same Windows 7 build are recognized and accessible.

Using an ASRock X670E Taichi motherboard with BiOS version 2.03.AS03.

How can I make the new Windows 11 environment recognize the HDDs as NFTS without data loss?

Thank you.

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#2 Porthos

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Posted 23 January 2024 - 11:30 PM

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/access-gpt-protective-partition-without-losing-data.html Possibly??

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Posted 24 January 2024 - 07:46 AM

Possible solution. I've never came across a GPT protective partition. GPT is the partition table. NTFS is the file system. They are two separate things.

https://superuser.com/questions/1504700/read-data-in-a-hdd-shown-as-gpt-protective-partition-in-a-windows-10-system

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#4 Lilium

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Posted 25 January 2024 - 12:58 AM

I appreciate the clarification.

The solution in the link provided solved the issue as well, thank you.

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Edited by hamluis, 28 January 2024 - 05:48 AM.

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Posted 25 January 2024 - 06:49 AM

Thanks for sharing the solution.

Its strange that you need to connect the HDD directly instead of using the Sabrent docking station that Support hard drives up to 20TB!

https://sabrent.com/products/ec-dflt

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#6 Lilium

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Posted 26 January 2024 - 10:04 PM

You're welcome. There's nothing worse than finding forum threads with your exact problem, posts with promise of a solution coming, and the last message was years ago plus unresolved.

20TB huh? Strange indeed.

Edited by hamluis, 28 January 2024 - 05:48 AM.

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