If you just want to make use of the 3TB storage then go ahead and format it with the USB-SATA adapter.
#How to format seagate goflex nas how to
The only way to recover the data is to connect directly with SATA (or find a USB-SATA bridge that doesn't mess with the sector size). Any ideas on how to mount the Seagate 3TB SATA Drive (removed from plastic case of a GoFlex Home NAS setup) via USB on a Laptop I purchased a powered SATA-to-USB adapter from Amazon, tried to mount on Windows and while the device was immediately detected, Windows reported it needed to be formatted. The base station is solid state, and with no moving parts it is much less likely to fail than the hard drive, unless you plug in a power supply more than 12V.
When you connect with USB-SATA 4k sectors everything is in the wrong place so the OS says it needs to be formatted. The GoFlex Home's native SATA connection has a sector size of 512 byte so all the addresses in the Master File Table are based on 512byte references. They do that so that Windows XP can use a 3TB drive, otherwise Windows XP is limited to 2TB. The reason that you can't read the drive when it is connected to a laptop with a USB-SATA adapter is that most, if not all USB-SATA bridge chips change the sector size to 4096 byte. Short answer is no I don't have any ideas how to mount the 3TB SATA Drive (removed from plastic case of a GoFlex Home NAS setup) via USB on a Laptop.ĭid you read my post at all? The GoFlex Home drive filesystem is NTFS. Number Start End Size File system Name Flagsġ 0.00TB 3.00TB 3.00TB primary msftres Delete Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data on Okay I tried that and I was able to clear the flag but then it came back when I formatted NTFS again? Isn't that so strange? Thanks so much. See this link for info on the WD format tool if you haven't already, cheers Seagate doesn't provide a similar tool for their USB adapters so they're stuck on 4096B and that's why the problems arise. WD's quick format tool interacts with their USB adapter to set the sector size (512B for factory default and 4096B for XP) so your WD drive might be set up OK. If you use the /sbin/parted /dev/sda command and then the print command and it shows a sector size of 512B then it is all good. Each file will use at least one cluster so larger clusters just mean you might waste a bit of disk space.Ī) you can't change it in software, it is set by the hardware andī) the physical location of data on the disk is calculated by sector. The default cluster size for NTFS is 4096 byte and setting a smaller cluster size is only useful if you have a lot of tiny (smaller than 4k) files. The sector size is set by the hardware and cluster size (also called allocation unit size) is set by the filesystem (software). Hi, Cluster size and Sector size aren't the same thing.
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