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I’m well aware of the risks of data loss, that’s a given. But this is not a question about data loss, it’s a question about accessing drives across operating systems

It’s a home pc, so finding a backup solution for 70tb is not easy…

I didn’t use storage spaces, I just did through disk management, converted to dynamic discs, and extended the volumes using the free space as I added additional discs. So I guess they are simple volumes?

Thanks for the quick reply. I can try that for spanned volumes but I suspect I’ll still have the 4k alignment error? The drives were partitioned and formatted in windows 10 so don’t know why they would be out of alignment in the first place

I have a bit of an issue! I have a win10 pc running multiple 8, 12 and 14tb seagate disks. Most of these are in two spanned volumes - one with my large collection of dvd/Blu-ray discs encoded and the other with my collection of vinyl/cds/minidiscs in flac. Needless to say I’d rather not lose...

I am attempting to access a number of spanned Windows volumes that are using AFS drives (Seagate Exos 12-16tb drives) on Ubuntu. However, they aren’t mounting. When I check I get the warning “The partition does not start on the physical sector boundary ” and also get the error that partitions...