HD can not be reactivated by Disk Management

I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.

Please, help me with this issue.

Thanks.
PS. My system is Windows XP Pro SP2

"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.


at this point, if you try anything else, you could loose your data.
best to put the drive back on the ide channel and do a backup

"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.


at this point, if you try anything else, you could loose your data.
best to put the drive back on the ide channel and do a backup

Thanks for the advice,
but it's not activated on IDE either.. unfortunately...
I tried it on different computers; I put it back on my IDE controller card -
no luck.
BIOS recognizes the disk, Windows - does not.
On IDE it does not give me option to reactivate, but to import disk.
Tried it also. It gives me an error.

"philo" wrote:

at this point, if you try anything else, you could loose your data.
best to put the drive back on the ide channel and do a backup

Thanks for the advice,
but it's not activated on IDE either.. unfortunately...
I tried it on different computers; I put it back on my IDE controller card -
no luck.
BIOS recognizes the disk, Windows - does not.
On IDE it does not give me option to reactivate, but to import disk.
Tried it also. It gives me an error.

"philo" wrote:

at this point, if you try anything else, you could loose your data.
best to put the drive back on the ide channel and do a backup

I would imagine that if you were to speak (phone) with the manufacturer they
may be able to help you. The more you do with the drive the less chance you
will retain the file information.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.

Please, help me with this issue.

Thanks.
PS. My system is Windows XP Pro SP2

I would imagine that if you were to speak (phone) with the manufacturer they
may be able to help you. The more you do with the drive the less chance you
will retain the file information.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.

Please, help me with this issue.

Thanks.
PS. My system is Windows XP Pro SP2

I did call WD and was sent to Microsoft as it's the issue with the Windows
Dynamic disks. The drive itself is workong and tests by DataLifeguard as
healthy.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

I would imagine that if you were to speak (phone) with the manufacturer they
may be able to help you. The more you do with the drive the less chance you
will retain the file information.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

I did call WD and was sent to Microsoft as it's the issue with the Windows
Dynamic disks. The drive itself is workong and tests by DataLifeguard as
healthy.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

I would imagine that if you were to speak (phone) with the manufacturer they
may be able to help you. The more you do with the drive the less chance you
will retain the file information.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.

Please, help me with this issue.

Thanks.
PS. My system is Windows XP Pro SP2

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Dimson" wrote in message
...
I'd appreciate any help on this matter.
History:
I had 4 HDs connected through the IDE Controller card.
No Raid was set up - just 4 additional HDs.
They were all dynamic disks.
I had to move this drives to USB interface.
On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would not
remember the rest of drives.
Now, when I plug each HD in USB, I have to reactivate them in Disk
Manager.
It works... except one HD.
The USB interface recognizes this drive, the drive is checked by Lifeguard
Diagnostics as healthy, the drive is in Disk Manager as Dynamic offline.
Windows explorer does not list that drive.
Now, question:
When I try to reactivate this one drive I get an error:
INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6).
As I understand, something happened to LDM on that disk.
I know, the disk itself is good, the data is there...
And I know it is possible to restore that information... only with
Microsoft
help or help of the professional or enthusiast who knows this subject.

Please, help me with this issue.

Thanks.
PS. My system is Windows XP Pro SP2

Hi Richard:

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

I think he has another problem.

I've read the above link (quite awhile ago). I've had an array of
dynamic disks 250+250+160 GB's as one drive Z: in my computer. Due to
heat I had to install them in USB boxes. I just took them out from the
IDE interface inside the computer and put them into the USB boxes.

Now they WON'T automount, but have to be mounted manually, However
this was no problem to do - and my computer is always on, so I didn't
have to do it often. I've since got a better case, with better cooling
and reinstalled the drives inside the cabinet on the ide device -
again the switch was no problem!

The poster said something about:

On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would
not remember the rest of drives.

I'm not sure why he did this. I just took them out of the ide
interface and then straight into the usb boxes. I wonder if this has
something to do with it.

Regards Leif.

Hi Richard:

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

I think he has another problem.

I've read the above link (quite awhile ago). I've had an array of
dynamic disks 250+250+160 GB's as one drive Z: in my computer. Due to
heat I had to install them in USB boxes. I just took them out from the
IDE interface inside the computer and put them into the USB boxes.

Now they WON'T automount, but have to be mounted manually, However
this was no problem to do - and my computer is always on, so I didn't
have to do it often. I've since got a better case, with better cooling
and reinstalled the drives inside the cabinet on the ide device -
again the switch was no problem!

The poster said something about:

On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would
not remember the rest of drives.

I'm not sure why he did this. I just took them out of the ide
interface and then straight into the usb boxes. I wonder if this has
something to do with it.

Regards Leif.

Thanks for your input guys.

Somehow, drives were not activating when I connected all 4 of them through
USB.
Only one of them was, and the others where missing and I was not able to
reactivate them. I was able to reactivate any of them, but only one!
So, I decided to do them one by one. I did something wrong to one of them
and you know the rest of the story.
Going deeper, I found DISKPART utility in Windows. This program can do
damage to HDs, so I used it only for the information.
I'd appreciate help with this program.
The information tells me that this disk has a partition, but no volume.
I'd like to post this information and for your opinion on possibility of
recovering data.

DISKPART list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 75 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 149 GB 0 B
Disk 3 Online 112 GB 0 B *
DISKPART select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART detail disk
WDC WD12 00JB-00EVA0 USB Device
Disk ID: 4DC2C084
Type : USB
Bus : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
There are no volumes.
DISKPART list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Dynamic Data 112 GB 32 KB
DISKPART select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART detail partition
Partition 1
Type : 42
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
There is no volume associated with this partition.

So it's type 42 (?) hidden and not active....
Any way to activate it without loosing the data?

Thanks.

"Leif Nordmand Andersen" wrote:

Hi Richard:

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

I think he has another problem.

I've read the above link (quite awhile ago). I've had an array of
dynamic disks 250+250+160 GB's as one drive Z: in my computer. Due to
heat I had to install them in USB boxes. I just took them out from the
IDE interface inside the computer and put them into the USB boxes.

Now they WON'T automount, but have to be mounted manually, However
this was no problem to do - and my computer is always on, so I didn't
have to do it often. I've since got a better case, with better cooling
and reinstalled the drives inside the cabinet on the ide device -
again the switch was no problem!

The poster said something about:

On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would
not remember the rest of drives.

I'm not sure why he did this. I just took them out of the ide
interface and then straight into the usb boxes. I wonder if this has
something to do with it.

Regards Leif.

Thanks for your input guys.

Somehow, drives were not activating when I connected all 4 of them through
USB.
Only one of them was, and the others where missing and I was not able to
reactivate them. I was able to reactivate any of them, but only one!
So, I decided to do them one by one. I did something wrong to one of them
and you know the rest of the story.
Going deeper, I found DISKPART utility in Windows. This program can do
damage to HDs, so I used it only for the information.
I'd appreciate help with this program.
The information tells me that this disk has a partition, but no volume.
I'd like to post this information and for your opinion on possibility of
recovering data.

DISKPART list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 75 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 149 GB 0 B
Disk 3 Online 112 GB 0 B *
DISKPART select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART detail disk
WDC WD12 00JB-00EVA0 USB Device
Disk ID: 4DC2C084
Type : USB
Bus : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
There are no volumes.
DISKPART list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Dynamic Data 112 GB 32 KB
DISKPART select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART detail partition
Partition 1
Type : 42
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
There is no volume associated with this partition.

So it's type 42 (?) hidden and not active....
Any way to activate it without loosing the data?

Thanks.

"Leif Nordmand Andersen" wrote:

Hi Richard:

As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!

Looks like you're screwed!

I think he has another problem.

I've read the above link (quite awhile ago). I've had an array of
dynamic disks 250+250+160 GB's as one drive Z: in my computer. Due to
heat I had to install them in USB boxes. I just took them out from the
IDE interface inside the computer and put them into the USB boxes.

Now they WON'T automount, but have to be mounted manually, However
this was no problem to do - and my computer is always on, so I didn't
have to do it often. I've since got a better case, with better cooling
and reinstalled the drives inside the cabinet on the ide device -
again the switch was no problem!

The poster said something about:

On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would
not remember the rest of drives.

I'm not sure why he did this. I just took them out of the ide
interface and then straight into the usb boxes. I wonder if this has
something to do with it.

Regards Leif.