1 out of 3 NTFS partitions missing on a volume

[kake555]

Hi, new to Linux Mint. Boots in 3 seconds, WOW, and everything works out of box!

But this is weird:

I have a 4 TB volume. Previously, I used it in 32-bit Windows XP which lacks proper support for 4TB volumes; I had to do some shenanigans to get it work, and it finally needed to be split in three NTFS partitions which kind of sucked but worked.

On 64-bit Linux Mint 17.1 XFCE edition, the drive shows up like this (see attachment):

ntfs_problem.png

As it is showing as unallocated, I cannot mount it, but there really is a third NTFS partition there which shows in Windows XP.

Caveats: I haven's really tested this drive in Windows XP on this particular hardware so there is a possibility it's something that the linux can't deal with at all because of motherboard/BIOS.

Any ideas, similar experience?

[Pierre]

Hi, new to Linux Mint. Boots in 3 seconds, WOW, and everything works out of box!
Previously, I used it in 32-bit Windows XP which lacks proper support for 4TB volumes
Any ideas, similar experience?

LinuxMint is similar to win_xp, in as much as the 3Tb / 4Tb HDDs are not recognised properly.

- usually only win_7 can recognise these HDDS correctly
but: having said that - there are a few Linux O/Ss that will recognise them correctly.
- not sure which ones, they are.

like win win_xp - it's a driver issue, although with Linux - that is generally contained in it's kernel.

and typically, these HDDs need to work with an associated usb connector as the usb bit does the sector translation.
ie: you probably will have issues in connecting them directly to a SATA port on the mobo.

[kake555]

Sorry, forgot to mention; the disk is directly connected to a SATA2 port on the motherboard.