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MS4TeePee
Iron Contributor
Jun 18, 2026

IIs there a native way to backup and restore partition table

I'm having trouble with a couple of external drives that are periodically losing the partition table. While I continue to try and identify the root cause (not the subject of this post) I wonder if there is a native Windows 11 solution to backing up (and restoring) just the partition table of the drives?

 

Thanks very much in advance

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  • Jamony's avatar
    Jamony
    MCT
    Jul 06, 2026

    Hi, Windows does not really provide a simple built-in tool to back up and restore only a partition table. For safety, a full-disk image is the most user-friendly option. If you specifically need GPT/partition metadata backup, tools like sgdisk from Linux/WinPE can do it, but if drives keep losing partition tables, I’d also check the enclosure, USB cable, power, and drive health.