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Recovering Data From Dynamic Disk ?? HELP!

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Necrosaro420

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Ok, I have 2 hard drives......Everything worked fine. I formatted the pc (left the slave drive with the stuff I want to recover alone)....Reinstalled XP(sp2), and now the slave drive says it is a Dynamic drive. I can not reach the drive by any means that I know of. My Computer will not show it, etc etc....Even though It poped up and said "soandso installed and is ready to use" "soandso is working properly".

In the Computer Managment, it is listed as a "Foreign" drive. I try to import it, and I get some kinda unknown winodws error (tried this on 2 pc's btw). It says I can convert it from Dynamic to Basic, but I would lose all of the data.

My question is, 1, is there a way to get this working and keep all of my stuff in tact?

Or is there a way I can get all of the info off of it before I have to convert it to basic?

Thanks!
 
Post exact details on the Windows error please, when you try the import. Please also search support.microsoft.com for that error. Check the eventlogs as well.
 
OK, so it sounds like your dynamic disk's LDM database is corrupt. Since you have no other dynamic disks (do you?), there are no other LDM databases to pull from, so I don't have a quick solution for you. 🙁

If you converted from basic to dynamic without changing the partition setup and structure, you may be able to edit the partition type and change it from 42 to 07 and that may permit you to access the data on the disk.
 
Originally posted by: dclive
OK, so it sounds like your dynamic disk's LDM database is corrupt. Since you have no other dynamic disks (do you?), there are no other LDM databases to pull from, so I don't have a quick solution for you. 🙁

If you converted from basic to dynamic without changing the partition setup and structure, you may be able to edit the partition type and change it from 42 to 07 and that may permit you to access the data on the disk.
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How/What could I use to do this? Thanks!
 
Did you change from basic to dynamic without changing the partition setup at all? If so, diskprobe from microsoft might help.

You'd open the disk and set it active in diskprobe, open sector 0, and then go to line 01c0 and change 42 to 07, write your changes back, reboot, and see if you can see your disk. If not, change it back.

There is some risk in doing this. Go slowly, and don't rush.
 
Originally posted by: dclive
Did you change from basic to dynamic without changing the partition setup at all? If so, diskprobe from microsoft might help.

You'd open the disk and set it active in diskprobe, open sector 0, and then go to line 01c0 and change 42 to 07, write your changes back, reboot, and see if you can see your disk. If not, change it back.

There is some risk in doing this. Go slowly, and don't rush.
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I have no idea about if I changed the partition or not. I have had this hard drive for a while with all of my important stuff saved on it. It has went through several installs of XP (not this hdd itself, since it was a slave) and I had never had problems with it before.

Now all of a sudden it just started doing this when I hooked it up again.

 
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