{"id":1193,"date":"2009-01-01T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2009-01-01T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:25:22","slug":"gpt-protective-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"GPT Protective Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly, I couldn't format a Mac HDD from windows due to this GPT protective format. Here's the help from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paulgu.com\/2008\/01\/06\/how-to-delete-gpt-protective-partition\/\" target=\"_new\">Paul Gu<\/a> to fix the problem:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Windows XP Professional, if you cannot access or modify GPT disk, you can convert a GPT disk to MBR by using the clean command in DiskPart, which will remove all data and partition structures from the disk.<\/p>\n<p>1. You may see S2VR HD 5 Drives in GPT status.<\/p>\n<p>2. Go to DOS command line (click on \u201cStart Menu\u201d, then \u201cRun\u201d, type in \u201ccmd\u201d in textbox, and hit \u201cOK\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>    * Type in \u201cDiskPart\u201d in command line.<br \/>\n    * Type in \u201clist disk\u201d in command line to show all disks in this machine.<Br><br \/>\n    * Use \u201cselect\u201d to set the focus to the specified partition, for example \u201cselect disk 1&#8243;.<br \/>\n    * Use \u201cclean\u201d command to remove GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors.<\/p>\n<p>3. Go back to Disk Management, you can see all S2VR HD disks are \u201cunallocated\u201d now. Right click on disk info, choose \u201cInitialize Disk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>4. Choose all drives in S2VR HD and initialize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly, I couldn't format a Mac HDD from windows due to this GPT protective format. Here's the help from Paul Gu to fix the problem: In Windows XP Professional, if you cannot access or modify GPT disk, you can convert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}