Urgent help needed: Unreadable dynamic partition

[m.o]

bad news once the primary os is formated for a dynamic
drive you have lost you info...even if its on another
partition drive etc. this will not happen if you leave it
basic
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all
>
>Yesterday I had this configuration up and running:
>
>Disk 0:
>10GB Basic partition: XP installed and boot
>60GB Basic partition: Data
>
>Disk 1:
>132GB Dynamic partition: Data (100% of the disk
partitioned)
>
>I reinstalled XP. Everything looked ok, until I tried to
read Disk 1. The
>disk is listed in Disk Management as Unreadable with a
white cross on a
>yellow dot. I tried rescan and a lot more. I didn't find
any volumes when I
>tried using diskpart.
>
>Here's the detail for the partition in diskpart:
>
>DISKPART> detail partition
>
>Partition 1
>Type : 42
>Hidden: Yes
>Active: No
>
>There is no volume associated with this partition.
>
>Here's some output from dmdiag with verbose mode:
>
>---------- \Device\Harddisk1 ----------
>
>\Device\Harddisk1\DP(1)0x7e00-0x262a7cb400+4 (Device)
>\Device\Harddisk1\DR1 (Device)
>\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 (SymbolicLink) ->
\Device\Harddisk1\DR1
>
>---------- Partition Table Info Disk 1 ----------
>
>
> 16,709 Cylinders
> 255 Tracks/Cylinder
> 63 Sectors/Track
> 512 Bytes/Sector
> 12 MediaType
> 268,430,085 Sectors (total)
> 137,436,203,520 Bytes (total)
> 134,215,043 KB
> 131,069 MB
> 128.0 GB
>
> 0 StartingOffset
> 137,438,952,960 PartitionLength
> 0 HiddenSectors
> 0 PartitionNumber
> 0 PartitionType
> 0 BootIndicator
> 0 RecognizedPartition
> 0 RewritePartition
>
> MBR PartitionStyle
> 4 PartitionCount
> 9d4cb776 Signature
>
> Starting Partition Hidden Total
Partition
>Partition Boot Recognized Rewrite
> Offset (bytes) Length (bytes) Sectors
Sectors Number Type
>(HEX) Indicator Partition Partition
>
> 32,256 163,921,572,864 63
320,159,322 0
>0x42 0 1 0
> 0 0 0
0 1
>0x00 0 0 0
> 0 0 0
0 2
>0x00 0 0 0
> 0 0 0
0 3
>0x00 0 0 0
>
> 137,436,203,520 Bytes (268430085 sectors) Geometric size
> 137,438,952,960 Bytes (268435455 sectors) True size
(measured)
> 137,438,952,960 Bytes (268435455 sectors) Reported size
(Partition0)
> 0 Bytes ( 0 sectors) missing/wasted
>
>Disk Harddisk1: dm= dgiid=0.0 darid=0.1027 dmrid=0.0
> kflag=()
> sflag=()
> vflag=(autoconfig|online)
> publen=9223372036854775807 privlen=9223372036854775807
maxiosize=2048
> type=ntdisk info=
>
>All help is appreciated!
>
>kind regards,
>Morten Eriksen
>
>
>.
>

[Morten Eriksen]

How can this be a feature. Sounds like the worst design ever! Are you sure
about this? Anyone from Microsoft in here? Shouldn't there be a huge warning
when you create a dynamic partition?

Morten

"m.o" > wrote in message
...
> bad news once the primary os is formated for a dynamic
> drive you have lost you info...even if its on another
> partition drive etc. this will not happen if you leave it
> basic
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello all
> >
> >Yesterday I had this configuration up and running:
> >
> >Disk 0:
> >10GB Basic partition: XP installed and boot
> >60GB Basic partition: Data
> >
> >Disk 1:
> >132GB Dynamic partition: Data (100% of the disk
> partitioned)
> >
> >I reinstalled XP. Everything looked ok, until I tried to
> read Disk 1. The
> >disk is listed in Disk Management as Unreadable with a
> white cross on a
> >yellow dot. I tried rescan and a lot more. I didn't find
> any volumes when I
> >tried using diskpart.
> >
> >Here's the detail for the partition in diskpart:
> >
> >DISKPART> detail partition
> >
> >Partition 1
> >Type : 42
> >Hidden: Yes
> >Active: No
> >
> >There is no volume associated with this partition.
> >
> >Here's some output from dmdiag with verbose mode:
> >
> >---------- \Device\Harddisk1 ----------
> >
> >\Device\Harddisk1\DP(1)0x7e00-0x262a7cb400+4 (Device)
> >\Device\Harddisk1\DR1 (Device)
> >\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 (SymbolicLink) ->
> \Device\Harddisk1\DR1
> >
> >---------- Partition Table Info Disk 1 ----------
> >
> >
> > 16,709 Cylinders
> > 255 Tracks/Cylinder
> > 63 Sectors/Track
> > 512 Bytes/Sector
> > 12 MediaType
> > 268,430,085 Sectors (total)
> > 137,436,203,520 Bytes (total)
> > 134,215,043 KB
> > 131,069 MB
> > 128.0 GB
> >
> > 0 StartingOffset
> > 137,438,952,960 PartitionLength
> > 0 HiddenSectors
> > 0 PartitionNumber
> > 0 PartitionType
> > 0 BootIndicator
> > 0 RecognizedPartition
> > 0 RewritePartition
> >
> > MBR PartitionStyle
> > 4 PartitionCount
> > 9d4cb776 Signature
> >
> > Starting Partition Hidden Total
> Partition
> >Partition Boot Recognized Rewrite
> > Offset (bytes) Length (bytes) Sectors
> Sectors Number Type
> >(HEX) Indicator Partition Partition
> >
> > 32,256 163,921,572,864 63
> 320,159,322 0
> >0x42 0 1 0
> > 0 0 0
> 0 1
> >0x00 0 0 0
> > 0 0 0
> 0 2
> >0x00 0 0 0
> > 0 0 0
> 0 3
> >0x00 0 0 0
> >
> > 137,436,203,520 Bytes (268430085 sectors) Geometric size
> > 137,438,952,960 Bytes (268435455 sectors) True size
> (measured)
> > 137,438,952,960 Bytes (268435455 sectors) Reported size
> (Partition0)
> > 0 Bytes ( 0 sectors) missing/wasted
> >
> >Disk Harddisk1: dm= dgiid=0.0 darid=0.1027 dmrid=0.0
> > kflag=()
> > sflag=()
> > vflag=(autoconfig|online)
> > publen=9223372036854775807 privlen=9223372036854775807
> maxiosize=2048
> > type=ntdisk info=
> >
> >All help is appreciated!
> >
> >kind regards,
> >Morten Eriksen
> >
> >
> >.
> >