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Lady Fitzgerald said:

I just learned something interesting yesterday. If you attempt to clone an MBR drive to a GPT drive, the GPT drive will become an MBR drive.

In my case, I was cloning a 2TB HDD (MBR) to a freshly formatted 4TB SSD (GPT, obviously) and wound up with an SSD that had two roughly 2TB partitions, one of which drove me nuttier than usual because I couldn't do anything with it when I tried to fix it with MiniTool Partition wizard until I finally dawned on one of my few remaining brain cells (three, I think; I have trouble counting that high) that the working partition was MBR. Once I converted the working partition back to GPT, I was able to use FreeFileSync to transfer my data from the HDD to SSD (which was probably better, even though slower, since FFS is set to verify every copy operation).

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

It sort of makes sense though.

kado897 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

I just learned something interesting yesterday. If you attempt to clone an MBR drive to a GPT drive, the GPT drive will become an MBR drive.

In my case, I was cloning a 2TB HDD (MBR) to a freshly formatted 4TB SSD (GPT, obviously) and wound up with an SSD that had two roughly 2TB partitions, one of which drove me nuttier than usual because I couldn't do anything with it when I tried to fix it with MiniTool Partition wizard until I finally dawned on one of my few remaining brain cells (three, I think; I have trouble counting that high) that the working partition was MBR. Once I converted the working partition back to GPT, I was able to use FreeFileSync to transfer my data from the HDD to SSD (which was probably better, even though slower, since FFS is set to verify every copy operation).

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

It sort of makes sense though.

Yeah, it does, once you make sense of it...Wait, what did I just say?

All seriousness aside, I understand (now) what happened and just thought I would pass this little tidbit along so others don't make the same mistake (which caused me to waste four hours: three hours for the unusable clone and an hour to figure out where I screwed up).

A 4 TB SSD - I think they are about us$1500. Now I know I'm getting old or simply $ tight.

mjf said:

A 4 TB SSD - I think they are about us$1500. Now I know I'm getting old or simply $ tight.

The wee buggers are $1499.99 MSRP but I was able to get them for between $100 and $125 less. I was going to buy a new truck but it looks like I'll be keeping the old one a while longer (quite a while longer...one heck of a lot longer!).

And you aren't the only one getting old and tight. I almost had heart failure when I finally built up the nerve to hit the order button. I may have bought them at the right time, though. There are rumors knocking about that HDDs prices are going to go up due a supposed shortage (or production slow down) and that will fuel a shortage of SSDs (Samsung is already having a NAND shortage) causing them to increase in price. Time will tell

Hi,
I believe hell would freeze over before I would buy one :)

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
I believe hell would freeze over before I would buy one :)

Well, AZ is having a cold snap right now and, during the summer, at least, we are about two feet from hell...

Seiously, the only thing wrong with SSDs nowadays is they aren't cheap. I'm looking forward to going all SSD. Lower power consumption, smaller size, less heat, less weight, what's not to like (other than high prices, of course)?

Lady Fitzgerald said:

...There are rumors knocking about that HDDs prices are going to go up due a supposed shortage (or production slow down) and that will fuel a shortage of SSDs (Samsung is already having a NAND shortage) causing them to increase in price...

Here is one of those rumors although, so far, the 4TB SSDs and a couple of 500GB SSDs I have on order haven't gone up yet (note that I said yet).

Lady Fitzgerald said:

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
I believe hell would freeze over before I would buy one :)

Well, AZ TZ is having a cold snap right now and, during the summer, at least, we are about two feet from hell...
?

Hi a lot closer than that in Texas :)

ThrashZone said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
I believe hell would freeze over before I would buy one :)

Well, AZ TZ is having a cold snap right now and, during the summer, at least, we are about two feet from hell...
?

Hi a lot closer than that in Texas :)

Oh man! Don't give me straight lines like that!

I am not quite sure why this thread is coming up in my emails but hi everybody. Interesting to know SSDs are going up.

Light dawns. Google has been warning me about my emails being "hacked" from a US address. Could that be you - I call myself an oldie.

Sorry. Very unlikely. More likely a Facebook thing. Use a different email address for this forum in any case.