NTFS drive mountable in Linux, not recognized by Windows

[tikker]

Bit of a strange issue to me. I have this old 2 TB Seagate HDD of which I want to move data off to the new server. It was formatted on linux as NTFS, but the problem is, Windows 10 does not recognize it. Disk Manager reports a primary partition of 2 TB free space. I can only delete the volume, nothing else.

 

In Linux however I can mount the drive and see what's on there just fine. Any idea what the problem may be? Are the NTFS libraries under linux not entirely compatible with Windows?

 

[Edit] In the properties the 2 TB drive is an MBR style partition, whilst my Windows installation is GPT. Maybe these don't mix?

[WereCatf]

8 minutes ago, tikker said:

Are the NTFS libraries under linux not entirely compatible with Windows?

Not entirely, no. If it's a good while ago that you formatted it under Linux or you used a distro that ships with outdated tools, it could certainly be that you ended up with a slightly broken NTFS-filesystem. As for MBR vs GPT -- it doesn't matter, Windows can use MBR-disks just fine even if the system-disk is using GPT.

[Kilrah]

I believe 2TB is the max size for MBR, maybe linux made the size a bit too big for Windows to accept it...

 

But yeah seems the ntfs tools you used on linux aren't totally in line with what Windows expects, at least were not when they were used to make the FS. I wouldn't format a drive to NTFS on anythng other than Windows personally...

[tikker]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Not entirely, no. If it's a good while ago that you formatted it under Linux or you used a distro that ships with outdated tools, it could certainly be that you ended up with a slightly broken NTFS-filesystem. As for MBR vs GPT -- it doesn't matter, Windows can use MBR-disks just fine even if the system-disk is using GPT.

I see. I guess I'll have to fire up a linux to do the copying then. It's been like 2 years and I used Ubuntu 16.04 for it, so indeed not the newest.