GPT Drive not showing in Windows 10

[TechXero]

Hi guys...

 

New problem am having. Just finished setting up my new rig (Specs in Sig). I used to have a Linux System, but since moving to Ireland had to  build myself a new rig using Windows. Anyway, all my HTPC media drives were in Linux system but all were NTFS GPT drives as they were all 4TB and above. Needless to say they all worked in my new rig except one. That drive houses all my Saga based Movies (Sequels n Prequels). I tried Disk manager in Windows 10 right clicking gives me only one option, to delete volume. Now that's exactly what am avoiding as I cannot back it up anywhere. I have to use MiniTool Partition manager after every reboot to assign drive letter to it at which time everything works just fine.

 

What I do not get is why I have to manually assign drive letter to it after every reboot... Here's an image of MiniTool, all drives show as GPT (Data Partition) as opposed to just GPT that this drive shows. Maybe that's the problem ?

 

[Kilrah]

Have you created the NTFS volume on Linux? At some point the tools were buggy and didn't create them totally to spec.

 

Probably best to copy the data to another drive and repartition/reformat the offending drive in Windows, then move the data back to it.

[TechXero]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Have you created the NTFS volume on Linux? At some point the tools were buggy and didn't create them totally to spec.

 

Probably best to copy the data to another drive and recreate/reformat the offending drive in Windows, then move the data back to it.

I do not recall if I did it on Linux or Windows. Also as I stated above I got nowhere to backup 4tb of data. All my drives are full or almost full. The most free space I got on a drive is 250gb

[HanZie82]

You could try and assign a letter with Windows built in tool to maybe make it stick.
(Right click the windows button and click "Disk Management").

[muito_gostoso]

33 minutes ago, TechXero said:

I do not recall if I did it on Linux or Windows. Also as I stated above I got nowhere to backup 4tb of data. All my drives are full or almost full. The most free space I got on a drive is 250gb

create a repair with AOMEI partition assistant it is free, for GPT issue i use that.

[Kilrah]

7 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

You could try and assign a letter with Windows built in tool to maybe make it stick.

As he said the only option Windows disk management gives him is delete volume, it doesn't recognise it as a valid NTFS partition.

 

That's what happened for a while for NTFS partitions created on linux, there have been other posts about that.

[HanZie82]

Just now, Kilrah said:

As he said the only option Windows disk management gives him is delete volume, it doesn't recognise it as a valid NTFS partition.

 

That's what happened for a while for NTFS partitions created on linux, there have been other posts about that.

The one line i missed, my apologies. Ignore my message.
Thanks for pointing this out.

[TechXero]

 

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

As he said the only option Windows disk management gives him is delete volume, it doesn't recognise it as a valid NTFS partition.

 

That's what happened for a while for NTFS partitions created on linux, there have been other posts about that.

I did try MiniTool one of the best tools out there also Paid for...  My drive is already GPT... I think it need to have a DATA partition which Linux didn't do... Maybe?

[Kilrah]

I really think your only option is to borrow/buy another drive big enough to temporarily put the stuff on. Even if some fix is possible it would come at the risk of rendering the whole drive unreadable in the process, so you want a backup before attempting it anyway...

[TechXero]

AOMEI showing it as unallocated space