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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?

• Lubuntu 
• Pixel
• Remix
• Puppy
  

I would go with Puppy because that would probably boot the fastest

Hmmm been trying Puppy... I'll try the latest version

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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

This article should help you with Puppy Linux (Recover files from Windows drives using Puppy Linux)

(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.

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

Hey Tim,

Fabs Pro version should bypass this...

(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.

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(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.

I would try something base on Arch Linux like

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