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Sorry, I totally overlook giving enough explanations about the screenshot I posted then:
I had to take the capture at that moment to show the error message Partition Wizard displays. Unfortunately, at that point, it still displays operations at their current state, which is that the partition from O: have indeed been copied (albeith incompletely, though this doesn't reflect on the display) on the 4 TB destination drive. As soon as I click Ok on that error message window though, it says that since the operation failed it now has to revert back to previous state (ie. Unallocated space on the 4 TB drive) and then erases the incomplete partition copy. THEN only can you see the destination as Unallocated once again.
As to why the reserved 128 MB partition appears at the end instead of at the start is just my doing, trying various different configurations (copy with or without resizing, and moving the reserved partition after instead of before...). Not that I ever actually believed it would change anything, but given the extend of my knowledge in such matters, what did I know it wouldn't fix the problem?
And don't worry, I was always extra EXTRA careful never to mix up my 3 TB source drive with destination. I'm actually even a bit neurotic about it and could easily TRILE-check before applying any action, believe me!
Now as you said, I'm going back home on sunday and can order a (couple of) new enclosure from Amazon tomorrow so as to hopefully receive it early next week.
Sure thing! I wouldn't dare to try anything about it on my own!!! Not taking any chance, especially with so much data...Now keep your 3TB external having the data away beyond your hands reach.
Exactly like it is on this screenshot (from previous post). (Still detected as 2 distinct unallocated disks, one of 2 TB + another one of 1,64 TB)Plug-in your 4TB external and post a screenshot of how it appears in PW.
I can think of no other reason than my unreliable enclosure, although I can't figure out why it would make either format (MBR or GPT) appear as Unallocated space.But I can say this much: All HDDs come out factory formatted so that these can be used straightaway by the user.
The 3TB and 4 TB Green internal drives would have mostly come out as GPT initialised.( I have to check this with CKWD.I know for certain that greater than 2TB external drives manufactured by Seagate, WD etc. were coming out as Advance Formatted MBR drives to make them compatible with Windows XP till recently.With Windows XP no longer supported by MS even these external drives have started coming out as GPT initialised drives)
Good to know. Especially since it shows there are at least 2 different levels of incompatibility between my 3 enclosures.If you had connected these 3TB and 4TB greens internally in Vista or 7 they would have shown their full capacity. There is no two drives inside. It all happened because you put those into incompatible enclosures.
I'm planning to indeed. Although I believe I can try the Partition Copy once I get new enclosure(s), right?Now I think it will be best to wait till you can connect them internally,
I will be careful not to. In any case, I will be using a new (possibly even 2 new) enclosure(s) so it shouldn't make a difference if they are reliable (+ if I buy two, very likely I'm gonna buy the same model twice).Till then we shall only be doing "research" to get the data out of this mess with whatever resources are available without harming the data on the original drive.We have already done some (research) because you said you won't be back in your Paris Den till Sunday. We are not modifying or writing anything into that data disk. But make sure that you don't keep changing the drives into the different enclosures.