Convert Dynamic to Basic without data loss?

[paradoxblue]

Well it would seem my upgrade to windows 7 has sucked. lol

My 1tb drive went missing which is full of data.

It comes up under the manager as dynamic foreign ???

some research tells me i'm not the only person to have this. but all methods I find are no good.

The one I liked allowed for HEX editing

I found this page here:
http://www.dynamic-disk.com/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic.html

but when I look at the section it tells me to look at I see this

01 00 07 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 02 4C 38 3A 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA

All my drives seem to show me the same info. So either I'm looking up the wrong data. orrr somethings screwey with my system.

Seems this weekend has been nothing but hdd hell for me. If I must I will swap to my old os drive and try to move the files manually to new drives. but 1tb is a bit to move

Shawn

 

[InvisiBill]

PTEdit might work. It seems to do the same sort of thing as the hex editing, only with a GUI that's a little more friendly. http://ostatic.com/files/images/ptedit250gbpartn2ntfsaf7.png It may not understand what the partition types are, but could still show the proper hex codes for them, and therefore allow you to change them back to 07 from 42.

I know that you can run PTEdit off a BartPE CD. It doesn't seem to want to run on my XP x64.

 

[onyou]

I think the website you shared is good and the software worked well, then, how is your problem about convert dynamic disk to basic disk.

 

[Dr.Evil]

Have you tried importing the foreign disk?

I have done this several times without issue and the drive comes back but may need to assign it a drive letter.
Obviously backup the drive with software that can do image based backups before hand to be on the safe side.

 

[gimp]

another thread necro by onyou?