New 128TB drive bricked?
Posted: 17 Feb 2023, 05:40
Hi,
I just purchased a 128 TB USB drive. I was running experiments on it before putting it to actual use. I get lots of errors from Windows 10 Virtual Disk Manager. They have been mitigated by just unplugging the USB or using an action like "Refresh" or "Rescan the drives. In general its operation is clumsy.
In my experimenting, I switched the empty drive from GPT mode to MBR mode. It created two partitions (both unallocated). One was for 2TB; the other for 123 TB. I'm able to use the 2 TB partition. But nothing I do can let me use the 123 TB partition. So I chose to abandon MBR.
In Disk Management, I can right click on Disk 1 (the 128 TB disk) and invoke "Convert to GPT disk". When I do this it runs for a several seconds and then reports "Virtual Disk Manager: The drive cannot find the sector requested". This has been a fairly common error. However now I can do nothing mitigate it. And I'm stuck in this useless MBR mode (wasting 123TB).
I found TestDisk, downloaded it, and tried to find a feature that would return the disk to "factory" (i.e. empty in GPT mode). I didn't find anything.
So unless someone can give me a tip, I've converted 128 TB USB drive to a 2 TB USB drive.
All comments and recommendations are welcome.
Thanks...
Todd
I just purchased a 128 TB USB drive. I was running experiments on it before putting it to actual use. I get lots of errors from Windows 10 Virtual Disk Manager. They have been mitigated by just unplugging the USB or using an action like "Refresh" or "Rescan the drives. In general its operation is clumsy.
In my experimenting, I switched the empty drive from GPT mode to MBR mode. It created two partitions (both unallocated). One was for 2TB; the other for 123 TB. I'm able to use the 2 TB partition. But nothing I do can let me use the 123 TB partition. So I chose to abandon MBR.
In Disk Management, I can right click on Disk 1 (the 128 TB disk) and invoke "Convert to GPT disk". When I do this it runs for a several seconds and then reports "Virtual Disk Manager: The drive cannot find the sector requested". This has been a fairly common error. However now I can do nothing mitigate it. And I'm stuck in this useless MBR mode (wasting 123TB).
I found TestDisk, downloaded it, and tried to find a feature that would return the disk to "factory" (i.e. empty in GPT mode). I didn't find anything.
So unless someone can give me a tip, I've converted 128 TB USB drive to a 2 TB USB drive.
All comments and recommendations are welcome.
Thanks...
Todd