I added an ntfs partition to my external hard drive from a puplinux live cd, and then I added some files to the original partition (which i have been using for months) on my mac system, and now windows xp doesn’t display the drive in control panel, and in the drive management menu it identifies the drive as entirely a GPT protective partition. I can still use the drive normally in os x and linux. I tried deleting the new partition, which didn’t seem to help.
Is there anyway I can get my drive to work in xp again without data loss?
Sure. Pull all of the data out of it in OS X or Linux, then nuke it and start over. NTFS + numerous cross-platform utilities = trouble. Use FAT32 and format the drive as MBR if at all possible. It seems less prone to breaking when you mess with it under different OSes. As long as you don’t need 2GB+ files or specific bootability, you’re fine. Once you have it working properly under all three, don’t mess with it further.
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