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Linux Light That Writes to GPT
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I am no Linux guru. I am looking for a light version of Linux that boots quick into a live environment that supports writing to a GPT partition. Does such an animal exist?
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I would go with Puppy because that would probably boot the fastest
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Hmmm been trying Puppy... I'll try the latest version

I have been using the latest version of Puppy in a live environment when doing data recovery/transfers in my shop. Every time I try to transfer data from a drive to another drive that has a GPT partition using the latest version of Puppy I get the error that the destination drive is locked. I can read and pull data from a GPT partition however writing to that partition is not allowed. I have found this issue on numerous occasions.

I can read and write to a NTFS or FAT partition as usual
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This article should help you with Puppy Linux (Recover files from Windows drives using Puppy Linux)
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(09-16-2017, 10:06 AM)Britec Wrote:  This article should help you with Puppy Linux (Recover files from Windows drives using Puppy Linux)

Thanks Brian however this does not address the issue I am having.
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that may be a little tricky to do but what I am thinking you can try

boot up a windows pe live disk or USB then check to see if you can write data to GPT partition
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#8
Hey Tim,

Fabs Pro version should bypass this...
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(09-16-2017, 06:49 PM)Compton Wrote:  that may be a little tricky to do but what I am thinking  you can try

boot up a windows pe live disk or USB then check to see if you can write data to GPT partition

Thanks Compton I do know that a Windows live environment wtll write to a gpt partition ... Thanks for the reply.

(09-17-2017, 04:05 AM)LarryTheComputerGuy Wrote:  Hey Tim,

Fabs Pro version should bypass this...

Thanks Larry for the suggestion. I guess the bottom line is that there is no version of Linux that can write to a GPT partition. It won't be long until all of Windows mainstream and consumer computers will be running on a GPT partition.
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#10
I would try something base on Arch Linux like

Manjaro and see if that can do it https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/
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