Increase Partition Size - Read Only

[GeeDee]

Hi
Following my DTR-T2000 seizing after a white noise burst post (https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/dtr-t2000-seizing-up.11435/), I've carried out a RAW HDD copy (Paragon Hard Disk Manager) from my original 500GB to a 4TB NAS drive) appreciating that only 2TB will be accessible owing to MBR Drive limitations.

All works OK and seizing appears to have stopped despite 1 noise burst from which it recovered almost immediately.

Now I want to extend the 400GB Logical Partition into my enlarged 2TB Extended Partition (Paragon HDM again) but the original is Read Only. I've tried Paragon Linux File Systems for Windows but cannot get past the Read Only attribute.

I've also attempted to access via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but no idea and all sites I've found to aid me seem to assume you have a basic knowledge of Linux. I assumed my reasonable knowledge of DOS would help me along, but no!

I don't need to access the files, just enlarge the partition into unallocated space.

Any thoughts or suggestions as to how to remove the Read Only attribute?

 

[bottletop]

Don't know how to remove the read only attribute. I don't have this unit.
I've not tried it myself, but maybe gparted will help. https://gparted.org/livecd.php
An alternative solution - give the Humax a blank drive and use maintenance mode to format it.

DTR-T2000 Maintenance Mode « My Humax Forum

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Not sure if you'll be able to copy recordings to the new drive later.

You've made a clone of your suspected faulty drive. How do you know if you've cloned the fault or not?

 

[prpr]

Now I want to extend the 400GB Logical Partition into my enlarged 2TB Extended Partition (Paragon HDM again) but the original is Read Only.

The original what is read only? Where does it say this. You need to give more details, either description or image.
Partitions just are, they are not read-only.

I've tried Paragon Linux File Systems for Windows but cannot get past the Read Only attribute.

So you're doing this on a PC running Windows? Details you neglected to mention.

I've also attempted to access via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but no idea and all sites I've found to aid me seem to assume you have a basic knowledge of Linux. I assumed my reasonable knowledge of DOS would help me along, but no!

WSL is a weird beast even for those who do have a basic knowledge of Linux. What do you expect from M$.

I don't need to access the files, just enlarge the partition into unallocated space.

This is trivially easy with Linux, so why don't you just use a Linux live boot?
You just use fdisk to change the end sector - I find deleting and recreating the partition all in one go to be effective, then once you're sure you're happy (as it does all this in memory), hit the w key to write it to disk. You may or may not need to reboot after doing this, depending on how intelligent or otherwise the Operating System you are using is.
What filesystem does this T2000 box use? If it's ext3 or similar, then you can just resize the filesystem with one simple command once you've extended the partition, assuming it's not anything complicated partition-wise (it is on the HDR T2 as the middle one of three is the media partition, which is more tedious).

Any thoughts or suggestions as to how to remove the Read Only attribute?

No idea what you're actually describing.