Hi everyone,
All 16TB disks I have is exactly the same. Including FW, physical sectors 4K, logical 512B and NTFS on GPT partitions. Only difference is that some of them was encrypted as internal disks and others via SATA to USB adapter.
Issue is that those encrypted as internal disks can't be mounted through SATA to USB adapters (I have 5 different ones). I found this:
No matter which disk I connect via USB adapter, it suddenly have 65536 less sectors than same disks connected internally. Via HEX editor I can't reach last 32MiB (33554432 Bytes) of data via USB adapter. So no wonder that DC can't mount because it's looking for that last missing 32MiB on USB adapters. When initially encrypted via USB adapter, the windows see one partition (32MiB smaller), where data is. When this disk is connected internally, windows show two partitions now which second is unallocated, and sits on that last 32MiB part. So mystery solved. But main question is:
Do I have to repartition, reformat, reencrypt and rewrite about 100TB of data with smaller partition this time, or do exist trick to only resize partition so it can be 32MiB smaller? I'm sure it's possible, but I don't have right tool for that. Also I don't know if tool for this even exist. Ordinary tools like AOMEI Partition Assistant can't do it of course. If tool do not exist, maybe someone can guide me to do it manually through direct access of raw data. Which data of which offset I have to modify for example?
Thank you.
All 16TB disks I have is exactly the same. Including FW, physical sectors 4K, logical 512B and NTFS on GPT partitions. Only difference is that some of them was encrypted as internal disks and others via SATA to USB adapter.
Issue is that those encrypted as internal disks can't be mounted through SATA to USB adapters (I have 5 different ones). I found this:
No matter which disk I connect via USB adapter, it suddenly have 65536 less sectors than same disks connected internally. Via HEX editor I can't reach last 32MiB (33554432 Bytes) of data via USB adapter. So no wonder that DC can't mount because it's looking for that last missing 32MiB on USB adapters. When initially encrypted via USB adapter, the windows see one partition (32MiB smaller), where data is. When this disk is connected internally, windows show two partitions now which second is unallocated, and sits on that last 32MiB part. So mystery solved. But main question is:
Do I have to repartition, reformat, reencrypt and rewrite about 100TB of data with smaller partition this time, or do exist trick to only resize partition so it can be 32MiB smaller? I'm sure it's possible, but I don't have right tool for that. Also I don't know if tool for this even exist. Ordinary tools like AOMEI Partition Assistant can't do it of course. If tool do not exist, maybe someone can guide me to do it manually through direct access of raw data. Which data of which offset I have to modify for example?
Thank you.