Hard Drirve Not Recognized by Windows

Support & Troubleshooting
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I detached my USB hard drive I use for Tablo and plugged it into Windows. It recognized that a hard drive had been plugged into it, but it did not show as a drive letter. I brought it up under disk management tool and saw the hard drive, but selecting it only brought out all additional commands grayed out, like format, assign drive letter, etc…


I wanted to clone the drive and put its contents onto a bigger drive. I was told it was possible to do in a Windows environment using cloning/imaging utilities.

Any ideas?
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I’d read somewhere that the drive gets formatted in ext3. Haven’t verified but if true, you won’t easily be able to work with it in windows. Try linux?

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@stevebob is right. Windows will do u no good at all. Linux will even be tricky.

There is a thread on this forum on how to clone the drive to a bigger one but not certain how effective it is.

Good luck.

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@Psilver1

http://community.tablotv.com/discussion/248/hard-drive-image-transfer-and-file-system-expansion-successful

Make the leap and try Linux, I did three years ago and couldn’t be happier.
If I can learn it, anyone can
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