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GPT Protected Disk

Wednesday, 28 March 2012 00:00

SCENERIO

You plug in a external disk drive into an Windows XP computer. The disk doesn't show under MY COMPUTER. You look in DISK MANAGEMENT and you might see HD Drive in GPT status.

SOLUTION

CAUTION! This will erase everything on the disk. If you need to get data off the disk, you'll have to use a data recover program like R-STUDIO or ICARE.

  • -click on "Start Menu" > click "Run" > type "cmd" > click "OK"
  • -type "DiskPart"
  • -type "list disk"
  • -type "select disk 1"
  • -type "clean" (This command removes GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors).
  • -go back to Disk Management
  • -right click on disk info > choose "Initialize Disk"
  • -right click on disk info > choose "New Partition…", follow Partition Wizard and format it.
  • -now you are able to use the disk in Windows XP.

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