[SOLVED] Need help converting MBR to GPT, I think?

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tacoboy713

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Just recently upgraded my PC to updated hardware. Here's the list if needed https://pcpartpicker.com/list/K2v8FG

Everything is working fine just one Nas Disk isn't reading properly? I CAN see it in the "Disk Management" but cannot access it or see it in the "This PC" area. All other Nas Disk plus a brand new SSD are reading properly and accessible.

https://imgur.com/a/QFQefcJ
View: https://imgur.com/a/QFQefcJ


Disk 2 is a Seagate 10 TB Nas IronWolf. It was previously used on a docking station reading properly on a Windows 10 Pro. Now that I have a new PC with a much bigger room to store it inside, it's now not accessible.

I'm not very tech-savvy on fixing this so I greatly appreciate it if anyone can EILI5, please. Thank you!
 
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Notice that the "NAS Three" partition is identified as "NTFS (4K)". This means that the dock is configured with a sector size of 4KB. When you attach this drive to a SATA port inside your computer, you end up with a 4Kn file system on a 512e drive. Sector 0 would still be in the same place, but every other sector is out by a factor of 8.

If you wish your drive to be interchangeable, you need to find a dock with a sector size of 512 bytes.

BTW, you didn't need to scan your drive. Double-clicking the NAS Three partition would have shown you your data immediately.
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tacoboy713 said:
Just recently upgraded my PC to updated hardware. Here's the list if needed https://pcpartpicker.com/list/K2v8FG

Everything is working fine just one Nas Disk isn't reading properly? I CAN see it in the "Disk Management" but cannot access it or see it in the "This PC" area. All other Nas Disk plus a brand new SSD are reading properly and accessible.

https://imgur.com/a/QFQefcJ
View: https://imgur.com/a/QFQefcJ


Disk 2 is a Seagate 10 TB Nas IronWolf. It was previously used on a docking station reading properly on a Windows 10 Pro. Now that I have a new PC with a much bigger room to store it inside, it's now not accessible.

I'm not very tech-savvy on fixing this so I greatly appreciate it if anyone can EILI5, please. Thank you!
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Yeah you just gotta allocate that space to the disk I had that same issue when I first built my PC. So in disk manager, I think you click on the unallocated 7 terabytes (right click) and set up a partition. If it doesn't work, just look up how to partition a hard disk and it's prety simple.
 
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Notice that the "NAS Three" partition is identified as "NTFS (4K)". This means that the dock is configured with a sector size of 4KB. When you attach this drive to a SATA port inside your computer, you end up with a 4Kn file system on a 512e drive. Sector 0 would still be in the same place, but every other sector is out by a factor of 8.

If you wish your drive to be interchangeable, you need to find a dock with a sector size of 512 bytes.

BTW, you didn't need to scan your drive. Double-clicking the NAS Three partition would have shown you your data immediately.
 
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