Install Windows to a 1TB drive but only partition the first 63GB. Most of the
disk is empty.
Clone the first 63GB to a 512GB drive. This misses the trailing GPT table.
Windows will boot and run fine. Windows Disk Management is happy.
But no Linux partitioning tool will touch this disk, or s
Den 2019-12-28 kl. 23:18, skrev Jason Mancini:
Install Windows to a 1TB drive but only partition the first 63GB. Most
of the disk is empty.
Clone the first 63GB to a 512GB drive. This misses the trailing GPT
table. Windows will boot and run fine. Windows Disk Management is happy.
But no
> Did you try to repair the backup partition table with 'gdisk'?
> Best regards
> Nio
Nice, gdisk correctly handles the situation. Literally: gdisk, write, quit.
Can we get parted and fdisk/cfdisk to be as clever, and not discard the first
table because the second table is inaccessible? That's
