Wednesday, 13 November 2013

External Hard Disk Formatted GPT: Shows Healthy (GPT Protected Partition) in Disk Management

Okay, this was a bit of a puzzle:

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A 2TB Seagate drive used for backups was originally formatted GPT on a Windows Server 2012 RTM Hyper-V host server.

We plugged the drive into a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host to run backup recovery tests and ended up with the above. We tried a Windows 7 Enterprise system and the same result was to be had.

Getting a little concerned that any search results for the above stated to format the hard disk we tried one more thing. We plugged the drive into a Windows 8.0 Enterprise x64 machine to see if the VHDX files would show up.

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Sure enough the drive received a letter and the files became available. Now to figure out how to get the newer server OS to read the drive!

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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