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Dynamic Disk Not readable after clean reinstall
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I have two disk, one is a 80GB Samsung, and second is 250GB Seagate. The second is a dynamic disk with two partions, 100GB and 132 GB. I just formatted the first disk, restructured the partions and installed a fresh copy of windows. Now I can not see the second disk. In disk management, it shows as unallocated space. I tried a few software. AdvanceRecovery shows the two partions on second disk, so they do exist. How can I make windows to 'see' the second disk and its partions? |
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Dynamic Disk Not readable after clean reinstall
wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I have two disk, one is a 80GB Samsung, and second is 250GB Seagate. The second is a dynamic disk with two partions, 100GB and 132 GB. I just formatted the first disk, restructured the partions and installed a fresh copy of windows. Now I can not see the second disk. In disk management, it shows as unallocated space. I tried a few software. AdvanceRecovery shows the two partions on second disk, so they do exist. How can I make windows to 'see' the second disk and its partions? You'll need a 3rd party utlity , perhaps the one you already have or perhaps something like this http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...s-recovery.htm Since the dynamic volume was created on a system that no longer exists... a fresh install of windows , of course, does not ahve that data. Best to ALWAY backup your data and better still...do not use dynamic disks ! |
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Dynamic Disk Not readable after clean reinstall
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I have used the above app to recover basic partitions in XP, may be worth a try, your call.. The TestDisk app should be able to see the partitions on the slave (disk 1) from a Dos box in (C: disk 0) XP.. Might be able to fix the MBR or write a new one..? Investigate the link, post your results.. Cheers j;-j " wrote: Hi, I have two disk, one is a 80GB Samsung, and second is 250GB Seagate. The second is a dynamic disk with two partions, 100GB and 132 GB. I just formatted the first disk, restructured the partions and installed a fresh copy of windows. Now I can not see the second disk. In disk management, it shows as unallocated space. I tried a few software. AdvanceRecovery shows the two partions on second disk, so they do exist. How can I make windows to 'see' the second disk and its partions? |
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Dynamic Disk Not readable after clean reinstall
wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I have two disk, one is a 80GB Samsung, and second is 250GB Seagate. The second is a dynamic disk with two partions, 100GB and 132 GB. I just formatted the first disk, restructured the partions and installed a fresh copy of windows. Now I can not see the second disk. In disk management, it shows as unallocated space. I tried a few software. AdvanceRecovery shows the two partions on second disk, so they do exist. How can I make windows to 'see' the second disk and its partions? "philo" wrote in message ... You'll need a 3rd party utlity , perhaps the one you already have or perhaps something like this http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...s-recovery.htm Since the dynamic volume was created on a system that no longer exists... a fresh install of windows , of course, does not ahve that data. Best to ALWAY backup your data and better still...do not use dynamic disks ! eupendra: I assume you're running Windows XP Home Ed. That version of the XP OS does not support dynamic disks. If that *is* the problem, there is no simple conversion process that I'm aware of that will return the dynamic disk to a basic disk so that the contents of the drive could be accessed by your present OS. The usual conversion process - see http://support.microsoft.com/default...309044&sd=tech will result in the deletion of all data on the disk. There have been some published hacks that supposedly can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk without the loss of data - see http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/a...sic-Disks.html and http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1806 . But, in general, the accepted workaround is to reinstall the disk in whatever OS, e.g., XP Professional, supports dynamic disks and retrieve whatever data you can through copying/moving the data to other media. Hopefully you have access to a machine with the XP Pro OS to accomplish this. See also http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_10.htm for additional info concerning dynamic disks, and take a look at "How to Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424/en-us#EQACAAA I've no experience with the program recommended by philo. Since they do offer a demo version it's probably worth a try at least to tell you *if* the data can be recovered. Anna |
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