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Hi All,
Anyone have a favorite utility to read GPT partition with XP? -T |
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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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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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