Seems I’m screwed. I have a WD Element 18T with only 1 partition for data backups and storage. Since I got a new desktop so I want to shuck it to make an internal. But after I shucked it and connected with SATA as secondary disk, it was not recognized. So I followed the instructions to tape the first 3 power pins and then it was recognized by Windows 11. However I found that the HDD was seen 3 partitions instead of 1: a 360G unused partition, a 1.6T and 14.7T unassigned.
I then put the disk back to the enclosure but the partitions didn’t go back and stayed at the 3.
What should I do? I’m currently using Aomei partition Assistant scanning but it’s super slow.
The “Backup” volume starts at LBA 63. This means that your partition is not aligned to a 4KB physical sector boundary. This won’t affect reads, but you will suffer a significant hit in write performance (because of a read-modify-write cycle).
The Backup Drive partition overlaps the newly created FAT partition, so you would first need to remove the latter. Also, if prompted, choose a GUID partition instead of MBR.
You may need to toggle GPT Off/On to recreate the GPT metadata.
