Windows 10: GPT Protective Partition. Moved 6TB SATA drive from Windows 7 64 bit to Window 10 64 bit

Hi


I hope someone can help me.


I have a Western Digital Black 6TB SATA hard drive that has been formatted as a single large partition with GPT on a 64 bit Windows 7 PC. It is not a boot drive.


I want to move the drive to different PC which has 64 bit Windows 10.


However, on the Windows 10 PC's Disk Management console, the drive is showing one partition as 2049GB GPT Protective Partition, and 3541.03GB unallocated. Thankfully, when I put the drive back in the original PC, everything still works fine.


I've read that the GPT Protective Partition can happen when moving from 32 to 64 bit systems, but both of my systems are 64 bit.


The motherboard on the second PC is an Asus P5K-E/WiFi-AP. It's BIOS drivers are up to date although the most recent release was in 2009. The motherboard's manual shows that the SATA connectors are Intel ICH9R. I have run the Intel Driver & Support Assistant and this suggests there are no software updates available.


Using the app "Drive Controller Info", it shows shows that "Standard SATA AHCI Controller 10.0.17134.1" is being used. I believe this is a standard Windows driver, and this is apparently up to date.


Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong?


Many thanks


David

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GPT Protective Partition. Moved 6TB SATA drive from Windows 7 64 bit to Window 10 64 bit

Hi

I hope someone can help me.

I have a Western Digital Black 6TB SATA hard drive that has been formatted as a single large partition with GPT on a 64 bit Windows 7 PC. It is not a boot drive.

I want to move the drive to different PC which has 64 bit Windows 10.

However, on the Windows 10 PC's Disk Management console, the drive is showing one partition as 2049GB GPT Protective Partition, and 3541.03GB unallocated. Thankfully, when I put the drive back in the original PC, everything still works fine.

I've read that the GPT Protective Partition can happen when moving from 32 to 64 bit systems, but both of my systems are 64 bit.

The motherboard on the second PC is an Asus P5K-E/WiFi-AP. It's BIOS drivers are up to date although the most recent release was in 2009. The motherboard's manual shows that the SATA connectors are Intel ICH9R. I have run the Intel Driver & Support Assistant
and this suggests there are no software updates available.

Using the app "Drive Controller Info", it shows shows that "Standard SATA AHCI Controller 10.0.17134.1" is being used. I believe this is a standard Windows driver, and this is apparently up to date.

Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong?

Many thanks

David

 

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