Dynamic Disk Error

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Guest

My error:

INTERNAL Error - No valid disk belonging to the disk group was found
(C1000096).

I recently purchased a Western Digital Caviar 200GB Hard Drive with an 8MB
cache. It worked perfectly for about five days (just long enough for me to
complete the rebate form and mail it), then suddenly I'm greeted by a family
member who says, 'hey, I can't get on your "Storage" drive.' I go to Windows
Explorer and low and behold the Drive is missing. I load up Microsoft
Management Console and then compmgmt.msc. I go to the Disk Management
section and it says "DISK 1, Dynamic, , Offline". So I right click and
choose "Reactivate Disk". It immediately says "Operation did not complete.
Check the System Events Log for more information." so I do and it says
"INTERNAL Error - No valid disk belonging to the disk group was found
(C1000096)."

WHAT CAN I DO????????????? I am at my wits end. I had copied all my
sensitive information onto that disk. I feel I could probably reformat and
start over, but that means losing 67GB of replacable data and 20GB of
unreplacable data.

PLEASE, SOMEONE HELP ME!!!

-Dale Trantham

Athlon XP 2400+
1GB DDR400 RAM
WD 120GB
WD 200GB
WD 20GB
Windows XP Professional (All Updates)
 
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Dale Trantham said:
My error:

INTERNAL Error - No valid disk belonging to the disk group was found
(C1000096).

I recently purchased a Western Digital Caviar 200GB Hard Drive with an 8MB
cache. It worked perfectly for about five days (just long enough for me to

is this drive internal or external?
 
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davexnet02

is this drive internal or external?
I'd give microsoft a call. Dynamic drive is their baby.
I don't even think the data is accessible from outside windows
with any third party tool.

Dave
 
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Guest

PLEASE, SOMEONE HELP ME!!!
I guess I helped myself on this one. I reviewed the articles on recovering
an "accidentally deleted" NTFS volume and tried that. Dskprobe.exe would not
work for me at all. It couldn't rewrite anything to that disk.

Instead, I purchased R-Studio 2.0. It was a purchase download, so I got it
right away and it recovered everything. I was very happy about that.

I'm not sure how I'll reformat that drive (Dynamic/Basic), but it bears some
thought.

Thank you to all of you who tried to help.

-Dale M. Trantham
 
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Dale Trantham said:
I guess I helped myself on this one. I reviewed the articles on recovering
an "accidentally deleted" NTFS volume and tried that. Dskprobe.exe would not
work for me at all. It couldn't rewrite anything to that disk.

Instead, I purchased R-Studio 2.0. It was a purchase download, so I got it
right away and it recovered everything. I was very happy about that.

I'm not sure how I'll reformat that drive (Dynamic/Basic), but it bears some
thought.

Thank you to all of you who tried to help.

and you want to know what is ironic in all of this, dale? it was because of your original query that i also goofed and wiped-out the partition table on a drive i did not intend to. you see, i was *vaguely* familiar with the DISKPART command, so when i read your original post, i thought, hmmm... i wonder if the diskpart command can help this guy. dutifully, i went about reacquainting myself with diskpart, looking for the specific sub-command (LIST, REMOVE, RESCAN, ONLINE, etc) that might resolve the problem you were having. in my eagerness, i forgot to change the volume that diskpart was logged onto when i issued the CLEAN command! my heart froze as i listened to the drive motor on my external firewire drive whir into action, and before i had a chance to say OHNO F**K!, the partition table was POOF... gone! without getting into all the gruesome details of what followed... guess what i used to recover the data? you got it... R-Studio. so, my friend, i have you to thank for allowing me to once again become much too familiar with the diskpart command and discovering a new set of file recovery tools. irony can be so cruel at times.

cheers!
 
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davexnet02

That's my last ditch attempt, since I'm pretty sure that no one at Microsoft
is going to know. I hate paying money for an "I'm sorry, we can't help you."
I had an issue with a dynamic disk and a swap file, but no one could help
with that (or even say 'It should work' or 'Nope, can't work, won't ever').

-Dale Trantham
Dale,
I've opened up pay incidents with MS before. They weren't able to
provide a solution and promptly refunded my credit card.
I think that's their general policy.

You could try a data recovery package, as suggested by Francis.
I see that R-studio supports Dynamic disks.
Dave
 
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davexnet02

I guess I helped myself on this one. I reviewed the articles on recovering
an "accidentally deleted" NTFS volume and tried that. Dskprobe.exe would not
work for me at all. It couldn't rewrite anything to that disk.

Instead, I purchased R-Studio 2.0. It was a purchase download, so I got it
right away and it recovered everything. I was very happy about that.

I'm not sure how I'll reformat that drive (Dynamic/Basic), but it bears some
thought.

Thank you to all of you who tried to help.

-Dale M. Trantham
Dale, if it's just a simple drive, consider basic.
I've a dynamic slave, and as soon as I get a chance,
I'm going to get all the data off and switch it back to basic.

I've got Acronis disk backup tools, it has a version that boots
from the cdrom so you can do restores if the system is unbootable.
In this mode it is unable to access the dynamic volume at all.
So I'm can't use the dynamic volume as a backup space.

Dave
 
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I considered diskpart for a little while, but then figured that it was
probably the same as in mmc when I told it to "Reactivate" the disk. I
haven't wiped that corrupted volume yet, so I tried the diskpart with nothing
to lose.

Diskpart> Select Disk 1
- - - > Successful
Diskpart> Select Partition 1
- - - > Successful
Diskpart> online
- - - > Successful

hmm, I thought, Was that it? I go back to Explorer . . not there. I jump
back to MMC and check. Still nothing. Jump back to Diskpart

Diskpart> Select Disk 1
- - - > Successful

Then I see something aboput importing dynamic volumes, so I try

Diskpart> IMPORT

and I get

An unexpected error has occurred. Check the System Event Log for more
information on the error. Close the Disk Management console, then restart
Disk Management or restart the computer.

I haven't found anything else.


Ironic indeed. Reality is a hard taskmaster. I'm glad you got your files
back!! I think I/we were pretty lucky in that.

Cheers back at ya!

-Dale M. Trantham


francis gérard said:
and you want to know what is ironic in all of this, dale? it was because of your original query that i also goofed and wiped-out the partition table on a drive i did not intend to. you see, i was *vaguely* familiar with the DISKPART command, so when i read your original post, i thought, hmmm... i wonder if the diskpart command can help this guy. dutifully, i went about reacquainting myself with diskpart, looking for the specific sub-command (LIST, REMOVE, RESCAN, ONLINE, etc) that might resolve the problem you were having. in my eagerness, i forgot to change the volume that diskpart was logged onto when i issued the CLEAN command! my heart froze as i listened to the drive motor on my external firewire drive whir into action, and before i had a chance to say OHNO F**K!, the partition table was POOF... gone! without getting into all the gruesome details of what followed... guess what i used to recover the data? you got it... R-Studio. so, my friend, i have you to thank for
allowing me to once again become much too familiar with the diskpart command and discovering a new set of file recovery tools. irony can be so cruel at times.
 

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