does not support gpt removable device: WinToGo
whenever I try to create a windows to go external usb hdd I get the message "does not support gpt removable device". I have 4 different external USB hdd, not USB flash drives that I have tried and all get the same message. they range in size from 250Gb to 2tb. All are USB 3.0.
I addition If I plug in a USB flash drive, it doesn't even see it. I have tried 16,32,64 and 128GB from different manufacturers and none are seen.
I don't think your WintoGo feature works.
I have windows 10 Pro Build 17763.rs_5_release.180914-1434
TIA for any help or assiatance you may be able to provide.
I addition If I plug in a USB flash drive, it doesn't even see it. I have tried 16,32,64 and 128GB from different manufacturers and none are seen.
I don't think your WintoGo feature works.
I have windows 10 Pro Build 17763.rs_5_release.180914-1434
TIA for any help or assiatance you may be able to provide.
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I tried to convert them to gpt, which I can do but it does no good.
WINTOGO does not see any USB flash drives that are plugged in to the pc prior to opening the program. Is this normal behavior?
I also tried it on a second windows pc, my laptop and again it doesn't see it or will boot from it.....even when i press f2 to go into the bios or use f10 .....
so i'm at a lose as to why this won't boot on either win10 pc that I have.
I don't think either of my PC's support non-uefi booting. There's no legacy or csm support in either of them.
I can send you images of the sector 0 and sector 1 of the usbfd and to me it looks like there is no boot sector/partition boot record.
I'll wipe this usbfd install and run it again and then take a look at sectors 0 and 1 to see if the mbr to gpt to mbr conversion process I did somehow changed the boot sector .and report back.
EDIT
Ok using HxD Hex editor and comparing my sector 0 to the NTFS sector 0 information in my old NT4 Resource Kit book, the Wikipedia NTFS entry and NTFS.com for reference, my sector 0 is indeed a NTFS MBR/PBR and has the correct info in it. So your WinToGo function is formatting it correctly as a NTFS MBR disk..... But unfortunately for me every PC that I own has only UEFI bios with NO legacy or CSM support, so I cannot boot MBR disks.
Perhaps in a future release you can include GPT/NTFS support in your Win To Go?
Can you pass this along to your developers?
AT some point in the near future I would assume that ALL MOBO manufacturers will no longer use Legacy BIOS'es, or even UEFI Bios'es with CSM support as they will not be needed.
There will be just UEFI firmware.
since I now know that my PC can boot GPT/NTFS I am going to try one last time and I will convert the MBR/NTFS to GPT/NTFS and disable Secure Boot and see what happens.
Will report here.