attempt to write to or to erase [000000]GPT.SYS failed Facility: EFI$CP, The OpenVMS EFI Partition Control Program Explanation: GPT.SYS is present, but is apparently ill-formed or ill-sized. User Action: Use the DCL commands DIRECTORY and DUMP to determine if the file is present, if the file is writable, and if storage is allocated to all blocks of the file. In particular, use DUMP/BLOCK=START=lastblock to dump the last allocated block of the file. (If this dump of the last block fails, the GPT.SYS file likely overhangs the end of the disk, and you cannot use GPT bootstrap structures with this disk. You must either select and use MBR-only operations or you must reinitialize the entire disk with a valid GPT and reload the files.)