Windows XP - Dynamic Disk import error

[PokeSmot]

Hey guys - I get the folloing error when trying to import a foreign disk in xp
"INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies (C10000B6)"

It's not my primary boot drive, it's my storage drive, and I have a lot of stuff on it... is there anyway to save the disk, or do i have to reformat??

I tried rebooting and importing again, same error.

Thanks
-Pokesmot

 

[bsobel]

Why is it foreign, did you reinstall or did you move the drive to another machine? If you moved the drive, is it on the same type of controller as it was before? If controllers and changed, 2K/XP may be reading the drive differently and not able to see the partition info.

Bill

 

[PokeSmot]

I had a P4S8X that got RMA'd and i just got a replacement. Put the drives back in in the same order, 2 of them read, this one doesn't, and I'd reallly hate to format it.

 

[bsobel]

Weird, very weird. I did find this thread on Google where someone does a lot of work to recover such a drive (but pulls it off). Maybe it will help.

Good luck!
Bill

 

[PokeSmot]

Thanks I'll give it a try

 

[PokeSmot]

I had to email the guy, but it's working (you have to make sure allthe files copy, (in my case some didnt')... I'd advise to never do dynamic disks
just keep it ntfs basic !

 

[wlee]

The only "safe" thing I would ever recommend you use Dynamic Disk sets for is mirroring. *NEVER* for spanning or stripping.