NTSTATUS 0xC0000172 (STATUS_PARTITION

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Description: Windows could not create the requested tape partitioning layout on the loaded tape media.

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STATUS_PARTITION_FAILURE

The tape partitioning command failed

STATUS_PARTITION_FAILURE belongs to tape-media initialization. Windows exposes CreateTapePartition and the corresponding tape IOCTL to create fixed, select or initiator partitions according to drive and media capabilities. This is not a disk-partition-table error and should not be diagnosed with MBR/GPT tools.

Capture the partition method, requested count and requested size. The API documents that some methods ignore count or size because the device's default partition definition is used, while initiator partitions use the supplied values except for the final partition. A request that is valid for one tape drive or medium can be unsupported by another.

Partition creation is a media-changing operation. Do not use repeated repartition attempts as a harmless probe on media that may contain the only copy of backup data. First query drive and media parameters, identify the loaded cartridge, and confirm that the backup workflow actually expects partitioning.

What to inspect

The dwPartitionMethod, count and size passed to CreateTapePartition.
Tape drive features and the media type currently loaded.
Whether the cartridge already belongs to an existing backup set whose layout must be preserved.

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