Prepare Exfat Ntfs Drives 130 Hold To Keep Existing Cache -

This is the critical step: you need to resize or recreate the file system header while leaving the cache data blocks untouched.

Recommended tool: gparted (Linux) or DiskGenius (Windows) – these support "move/resize without formatting."

Error 130 often occurs because a process is holding onto the cache. You must hold (pause) that process without deleting the cache.

# Create new exFAT but skip zeroing the cache clusters
mkfs.exfat /dev/sdX1 -n MYDRIVE -v --keep-existing-files
# (Note: --keep-existing-files is not standard in all mkfs.exfat; use dd workaround instead)

Alternative dd workaround – backup first 10MB of drive (where FS lives), format, restore cache: prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache

dd if=/dev/sdX1 of=mbr_backup.img bs=1M count=10
mkfs.exfat /dev/sdX1
dd if=mbr_backup.img of=/dev/sdX1 bs=1M count=10 conv=notrunc
# This preserves cache if it starts after 10MB

For professionals who need to automate this, here’s a Bash script that prepares a drive, resolves error 130, and holds the cache.

#!/bin/bash
# prepare_drive_keep_cache.sh
DEVICE="/dev/sdX1"
CACHE_PATH="/mnt/old_drive/Cache"
TEMP_BACKUP="/tmp/cache_hold.img"
echo "Step 1: Unmounting and holding cache processes..."
umount $DEVICE 2>/dev/null
lsof | grep $DEVICE | awk 'print $2' | xargs -r kill -STOP
echo "Step 2: Backing up FS metadata (error 130 prevention)..."
dd if=$DEVICE of=$TEMP_BACKUP bs=1M count=20 status=progress This is the critical step: you need to
echo "Step 3: Recreating file system (exFAT or NTFS)..."
read -p "Format as exFAT or NTFS? " FS
if [ "$FS" == "exFAT" ]; then
mkfs.exfat $DEVICE -n CACHE_DRIVE -v
else
mkfs.ntfs -Q -F $DEVICE --preserve -n CACHE_DRIVE
fi
echo "Step 4: Restoring header and unlocking cache..."
dd if=$TEMP_BACKUP of=$DEVICE bs=1M count=20 conv=notrunc
mount $DEVICE /mnt/new_drive
echo "Step 5: Resuming held processes..."
lsof | grep $DEVICE | awk 'print $2' | xargs -r kill -CONT Alternative dd workaround – backup first 10MB of
echo "Preparation complete. Cache preserved."

partprobe $dev sleep 1

After the "hold" operation, the drive should be ready—new file system, old cache intact. Verify:

# Check that cache files are readable
cat /mnt/drive/Cache/somefile > /dev/null