I was recently doing a large data recovery for a client in Kearny Mesa from some very unhappy post-RAID hard drives that had their partitions nuked. Doing a RAW data recovery I was able to pull their data, but once I wanted to transfer it back to the drives, they were labeled "GPT Protected". I then went about trying to reformat them. Windows XP said, "No way!", Windows 7 said, "Let's try" (but failed), and Linux wouldn't format them into NTFS. Fantastic. I then remembered the little used Windows command line "diskpart" that would allow me to simply de-initialize the drive.
Here's how it goes:
1) Open command prompt.
2) Type "diskpart"
3) Use the "select disk[#]" command to move focus to the correct hard drive.
Where [#] is, you put in "1","2","3", etc. This number can be gotten from disk management.
4) Type "clean" and when it finishes, close the command window.
5) Go to disk management and initialize the drive. Format drive appropriately.
Knowing a little command line saved the day on this one!
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-Greg
Office: 619-255-1215
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