https://luth.io/tags/gpt/ Recent content in Gpt on Luther Monson Hugo en Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:15:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/08/windows-dynamic-disk-usb-wsl2-usbip/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:15:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/08/windows-dynamic-disk-usb-wsl2-usbip/ <p>I pulled a 1 TB NVMe out of an old Windows box, dropped it in a USB enclosure and plugged it in. Windows showed nothing. No drive letter, no &ldquo;initialize this disk&rdquo; prompt, nothing in Explorer. Disk Management listed it as <code>Invalid</code>. The enclosure&rsquo;s booklet said to &ldquo;bring the disk online&rdquo;, which silently did nothing. The data was completely intact. Windows was refusing on <strong>policy</strong> grounds, not because anything was broken. Getting it back meant going around the Windows storage stack entirely. I handed the raw USB device to a Linux kernel that doesn&rsquo;t share Windows&rsquo; opinions.</p>