![]() ![]() these have no chance as they all pretty much only support up to 2TB disks. Scouring google for tips on how to get your data back results in nothing useful. Normal means of recovering data from them don’t work. Unfortunately the way WD formats these NAS hard disks is very strange indeed. Anyway, the NAS was destroyed in a thunderstorm one day but fortunately the hard disk still worked. I have never kept anything *really* important on there as I didn’t have anything to back up all that data on to. When the WD Mybook Live 3TB NAS was released, I went out and bought one and promptly put all my stuff on it. Also, check the comments as a lot of other people have tips! The procedure here may well not work for you, please just use it for ideas. Patrick.This article was originally written in 2013 and applies to a fairly old model of the WD Mybook Live. Sorry for all the humour and sarcasm, but stupid things like this, usually brings this out in me. Microsoft released NTFS with Microsoft NT v3.1 way back in mid 1993, so they've been working on NTFS for over 20 years, I'm sure they'll get it right eventually. Please note Microsoft products, and the "real" Product documentation for their products are almost always sold separately. Did you find the word " NTFS" or the word " format" in the documentation "postcard" that came with your Windows OS? You didn't? Not a problem Break your credit card out, and call Microsoft Press, then can sell product documentation for almost any Microsoft product. In the good news department though, you'll be glad to know that your QNAP will format your drive with a Microsoft-compatible NTFS filesystem considerably faster, and more reliably than Microsoft did. I'm a Linux user, so I find that last observation to be both ironic, and pathetic (on the part of Microsoft). ![]() Microsoft's own implementations of the Microsoft NTFS specification can't say that. Your QNAP should be able to put a NTFS filesystem on there for you which can be read by any system, (even a Microsoft one). MBR can only handle up to 2TB, so your drive will remain GPT even if formatted by your NAS. Thanks A GPT partition table will be required to mount that drive on any OS. WD30EZRX, both Qnaps on current firmware. Please can someone advise best way to go forward with this. My hard drive has been formated with windows, i am due to wipe the hdd temporally to move some stuff around so it not a problem to format and copy contents back on so it will work on the qnap howver i would prefer if i could keep it as gpt as i also use the drive on windows and other drvices which cannot read ext4. Mars109 wrote:Hi i recently purchased a TS-412 & TS-459 but for some reason neither will work my external 3tb GPT ntfs hard drive.It looks as though the qnap is mounting the drive however it comes up unsupported and gives an option to format. ![]()
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