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As it turns out, there's an open issue reported on skdump / libatasmart at Github for an error on LBAs Written for Samsung SSD's. I just added my own comment. Apparently skdump's code for calculating LBAs written doesn't work with Samsung SSD's. If the original poster for this issue is correct, then...

Use the program "Disks" (or Gparted) and edit the "OVERFLOW" partition (currently represented by sdb5) to make it Win95 LBA type. In Gparted just put the flag "lba" on it. Thanks for clarifying. I successfully added the lba label to the OVERFLOW partition and moved the...

I just decommissioned a SATA ssd as my primary drive and will use it to store off-site backups. I ran the skdump utility and received the below-copied results, which I'm afraid I don't know how to interpret. Would appreciate some help here. In particular, I find it hard to believe that this drive ha...

Thanks Andy. Cloning accomplished, no issues! I noticed the new SSD, being PCI-E, was given the name /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda, but a quick search revealed the reason why.

Thanks for clarifying. The fact that the EFI partition is FAT32 was the source of my confusion. Checking gparted, Device Information tab, it is indeed GPT. Rather than enlarging the Home partition, I intended to create a new partition at the end for large files that don't need to be backed up (to sa...

@AndyMH: I'm in a similar situation, but one thing isn't clear to me. My existing SSD has a FAT32 boot partition, for reasons I don't recall (see attached screenshot). I assume that means the partition table is MSDOS, right? I just bought a new SSD (larger and faster) and will use Foxclone to migrat...

- You can try the "Disks" program (Linux) and increase or decrease the size of the partition from the right. The Disks program, if nothing has changed, does not forcibly align the filesystem with the partition. Please say more about this. Also, I wasn't aware DISKS can resize a partition,...

Thanks for clarifying what caused the issue and suggested fixes. The XP machine assigns a letter but reports the partition unformatted. So when I try to use the chkdsk command, it returns this error "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives." I moved the d...

I moved the HDD to my Linux box and discovered I can put the drive in standby with this command: sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdb That's even better than disabling the drive from Device Manager on my XP box since I only need to navigate to a folder to wake the drive! I just need to put that in a startup scri...

I'm running Mint 18.2 and I'd like to learn how to execute commands when the system boots, at startup. For my first project: I recently moved a noisy HDD to my Linux box that stores old data files that I rarely need to access. I discovered I can put the disk in standby mode with the command sudo hdp...

I should have time Monday to move the drive to my Linux box for testing. On the XP machine, I can't hear what goes on during POST because the fans are running at full speed until XP loads speedfan. But if the BIOS initially wakes up the drive, it spins down when Windows loads, as long as it's disabl...

The other thread was helpful. Now I have several options to explore. In particular, I need to see if any of these methods is persistent, i.e., drive stays powered down when system is rebooted.

t42 wrote: ⤴Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:44 pm it's possible to compile and use hd-idle utility hd-idle.sourceforge.net .

Thanks for that, I'll check it out.

Are you sure that the drive not only deactivated but really spins down on XP motherboard - it depends on the controller. You can go to BIOS on your Asus board and disable SATA controller in the BIOS Storage Cconfiguration Or just unplug SATA power connector (after power PC down). With XP, the 2nd d...

No response yet to my post gparted forum. In the meantime, I moved the drive over to my Linux box so I can access the files. However, my LInux box is nearly silent (on-board graphics processor, SSD, intelligent PSU fan never turns on, temperature regulated CPU & fans), so the mechanical drive no...

Sorry, I realize this is the wrong forum to drill down on this issue. I just found gparted forum.

No idea, or why XP is saying it is unformatted, maybe it is having trouble reading the partition table. That makes sense... gparted obviously re-wrote the partition table when it resized the OVERFLOW partition, so XP apparently can no longer read the table. That seems fixable. Anyone know of a disk...

Hi Andy, here is the result: david@linux-desktop ~ $ systemctl --user restart gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor Failed to restart gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service: Unit dbus.socket not found. david@linux-desktop ~ $ thunar What does that mean? Surely a coincidence but I can now fully access the drive o...

It's always better to backup data before you try resize operations. This partition is mostly filled with old True Image backup images, old enough that I'm highly unlikely to ever need them. However, there are some other files on this partition, some of which are backed up on an external USB drive. ...

I'm in the process of recovering an older WinXP machine that has some software I use in my business. As a part of that project, I needed to shrink a FAT32 logical partition to make room for an NTFS partition to store a large backup image file. So I moved the HDD to my Linux machine and used gparted ...