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Old December 14th 18, 07:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite utility to read GPT partition with XP?

-T
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Old December 14th 18, 11:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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T wrote:
Hi All,

Anyone have a favorite utility to read GPT partition with XP?

-T


Paragon makes all sorts of crazy stuff, but you have
to "check under the covers" to see what it's doing. Here,
one software product does its own probing and gets a
"wrong answer" while Paragon is being used on WinXP.
Some sort of virtualization is likely happening, but
I can't even begin to guess how that would work. The
Acronis Capacity Manager, creates a virtual second disk
to soak up the excess capacity. And that's not as nice
a solution as would be a software that does GPT for you.

https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10985

I also tested a Paragon EXT4 and a NTFS solution, and
one of them changed permissions on something and scared
the crap out of me ;-)

So by all means, Paragon... but test test test.

Some products have evaluations, so you can get the crap
scared out of you first.

The customer, obviously, does the best testing.

No need for modern software companies to test anything, right ?

When I need to back up to a large hard drive on my WinXP
machine, I boot Win8.1 and do the backup from there :-)
Because of course, Win8.1 does GPT. I paid $39.95 for my
copies of Win8 (intro pricing).

Paul
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Old December 14th 18, 11:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On 12/14/18 2:10 PM, Paul wrote:
T wrote:
Hi All,

Â*Â* Anyone have a favorite utility to read GPT partition with XP?

-T


Paragon makes all sorts of crazy stuff, but you have
to "check under the covers" to see what it's doing. Here,
one software product does its own probing and gets a
"wrong answer" while Paragon is being used on WinXP.
Some sort of virtualization is likely happening, but
I can't even begin to guess how that would work. The
Acronis Capacity Manager, creates a virtual second disk
to soak up the excess capacity. And that's not as nice
a solution as would be a software that does GPT for you.

https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10985

I also tested a Paragon EXT4 and a NTFS solution, and
one of them changed permissions on something and scared
the crap out of me ;-)

So by all means, Paragon... but test test test.

Some products have evaluations, so you can get the crap
scared out of you first.

The customer, obviously, does the best testing.

No need for modern software companies to test anything, right ?

When I need to back up to a large hard drive on my WinXP
machine, I boot Win8.1 and do the backup from there :-)
Because of course, Win8.1 does GPT. I paid $39.95 for my
copies of Win8 (intro pricing).

Â*Â* Paul


Hi Paul,

I saw paragon's "Defunct" GPT utility but could not
figure out how to download it.

I tried their EXT4 utility a few years back. It was
absolute crap. Maybe they have improved it?

This is my doing with GPT, as I prefer it over msdos.
But I do have a special 256 GB msdos flash drive I made
out of an Intel ssd drive that I got repaired from Intel.
I only sell Samsung SSD drives now-a-days. Had very bad
luck with Intel -- took it in the shorts.

-T







 




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