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Dynamic Disk recovery

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tonkatrucker

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Ive decided to post here after reading numerous forums about how to correct the dynamic disk invalid message in disk management.

My drive is a 2tb that used to have a 100gb partition first followed by a 1.72 TB partition. I initally used it for a OS boot partition with extra storage. After I upgraded to a ssd I converted the disk to dynamic and added the 100gb partition at the beginning of the drive to the volume. it has been a long time and when i put the drive in another system to copy off the data it says invalid. I get the option to reactivate disk but it says "this operation is not allowed on the invalid disk pack."

this lead me to forum posts about how to convert the disk back to basic using a hex editor. My hesitation is that because this disk was not one large partition to begin with that doing the hex edit with result in corrupt data. I am in over my head on this and if anyone has any suggestions Im all ears. I have read post where people have included diskpart screens and Im hoping someone out there can instruct me on what program i need or how i can reestablish the dynamic volume so i can recover my data.

right now it is plugged in through an addon sata 2 controller flashed in non-raid mode

WDC WD20 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: 3C32E384
Type : SATA
Status : Invalid
Path : 2
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1C00)#PCI(0000)#PCI(0000)#ATA(C02T0 0L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No


There are no volumes.


DISKPART> list partition


Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Dynamic Data 1863 GB 31 KB

my thoughts are that if im screwed. could i still recover the 1.72 tb partition in all its glory and just lose the last 100 gb of data writen to it? or could the data be fragmented across both old partitions.

I scanned with easeUS and it seems like it will recover the 1.72 tb data but i think that most of it could be corrupt without the 100gb partition added to it.
 
I have no idea why you used the dynamic disk option but I've always read that there's no recovery available.

Sorry.
 
Try scanning it with a recovery utility like R-Studio or GetDataBack.

I've had great success with R-Studio recovering everything short of a mechnically failed drive (including complete recovers off dying disks sitting in coolers with dry ice)
 
That r-studio program worked great. Thank you for that suggestion. I actually found the "raid volume set" is what it called it. I was fine paying the $50 to get this show on the road. It was a stupid move of me to even use the dynamic volume to begin with but I think at the time i thought it was only going to be a short term temporary solution. turned out i forgot about it until it was too late. I went with the r-studio instead of the easeUS because it actually found the whole 1.82 tb "volume" instead of wierd duplicate whatevers that I was not sure of with the easeus only detecting the 1.72.

next time I will just expand the original partition instead of messing with dynamic volumes.
 
Yea, I found R-studio years ago when my data drive accidentally got wiped out, recovered it 100% and it sold me on the product. I can't tell you how many times I've recovered 100% of USB pendrives that decided to format themselves too.
 
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