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Windows showing drive as unallocated after file transfer using Ubuntu

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So, I had a 1TB hard drive and I wanted to transfer all of the files to my new 2TB hard drive. I only had two SATA cables so I unplugged one of it from my SSD and plugged it into the new hard drive. I then plugged a flash drive with Ubuntu to live boot it and decided to transfer all the files from my old hard drive. When it was done, I plugged the SATA cable back to my SSD and plugged the other one to my new hard drive. I booted into Windows and it showed the disk as unallocated. 

PC specs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600

GPU: MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4GB OC

RAM: Team Group T-Force Delta 16GB DDR4-3200

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AX370M-DS3H

SSD: Crucial P5 1TB 

HDD: WD Blue 1TB, WD Blue 2TB

 

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43 minutes ago, silverhelmet61 said:

So, I had a 1TB hard drive and I wanted to transfer all of the files to my new 2TB hard drive. I only had two SATA cables so I unplugged one of it from my SSD and plugged it into the new hard drive. I then plugged a flash drive with Ubuntu to live boot it and decided to transfer all the files from my old hard drive. When it was done, I plugged the SATA cable back to my SSD and plugged the other one to my new hard drive. I booted into Windows and it showed the disk as unallocated. 

How did you format the new 2TB HDD? By default, Windows cannot read ext3/4 formatted HDDs, so if you'd want to format the HDD as NTFS or exFAT.

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Did you only transfer or format that drive from within linux as well?

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9 hours ago, kirashi said:

How did you format the new 2TB HDD? By default, Windows cannot read ext3/4 formatted HDDs, so if you'd want to format the HDD as NTFS or exFAT.

I formatted my new hard drive as NTFS within Ubuntu

PC specs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600

GPU: MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4GB OC

RAM: Team Group T-Force Delta 16GB DDR4-3200

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AX370M-DS3H

SSD: Crucial P5 1TB 

HDD: WD Blue 1TB, WD Blue 2TB

 

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9 hours ago, silverhelmet61 said:

I formatted my new hard drive as NTFS within Ubuntu

Hmmm then that's really strange, since Windows should be able to read it. Something's not right with either a) the Windows install or more likely b) the way it was formatted... :S hard to say without seeing an fdisk -l command output.

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Laptop: Dell XPS 15 9560 (the real 15" MacBook Pro that Apple didn't make) Tablet: iPad Mini 5 | Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 10.1
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