Need a program to copy dynamic disk partitions

[glassvial]

So far every program I've tried can't do it. Ghost 7/8/9/2003, Partition Manager 7.0, Partition magic, I forget what else. Does such an animal exist?? Thanks.

 

[flexy]

what's a dynamic partition ? I never heard that term...

 

[glassvial]

Dynamic disk partition would be more accurate. 🙂

 

[xgsound]

AFAIK a DDO partition can only be read by using the boot drive from the system that created it because there have been so many variations. If this was a secondary drive in a system, the boot drive was modified to decode it. I'm not sure if all drives on the system (floppies too) are affected or not. If all disk drives are affected, the only possible solution I see is to boot from the DDO system and write the data to CDs.

http://www.storagereview.com has more info on Dynamic Disk Overlays in thier reference guide section if this doesn't help.


Jim

 

[Kadarin]

Boot up under knoppix and use dd?

 

[glassvial]

Originally posted by: xgsound
AFAIK a DDO partition can only be read by using the boot drive from the system that created it because there have been so many variations. If this was a secondary drive in a system, the boot drive was modified to decode it. I'm not sure if all drives on the system (floppies too) are affected or not. If all disk drives are affected, the only possible solution I see is to boot from the DDO system and write the data to CDs.

http://www.storagereview.com has more info on Dynamic Disk Overlays in thier reference guide section if this doesn't help.


Jim

Uh, no I think you misunderstood. I'm not talking about a drive overlay, I'm talking about a dynamic drive/partition, in Windows XP. As opposed to a Basic partition? Does that clear things up?

Have not tried the knoppix solution yet, but that's an interesting idea.

 

[glassvial]

knoppix idea didn't work.

 

[glassvial]

Ok got it, when ghost copies from one drive to the other it reverts to a basic partition again with no data loss. After which it allowed me to manipulate the partitions with partition manager so I finally have what I want. Thanks for the attempts at help. Learn something new every day, no more stupid dynamic drive partitions for me...damn Microsoft.