HD problem - URGENT!!!

[Willo]

Hi;

im having problems trying to access a hard drive (a 160Gb Hitachi
DESKSTAR ), the hard drive is partitioned in two, before the problem,
Windows XP says that both partitions were dynamic and let me access them
trough units M and N...

now the disk manager says there is only one BASIC partition and when i try
to access the hard drive windows says that it doesnt have format.

what can i do?!

 

[philo]

Hi;

im having problems trying to access a hard drive (a 160Gb Hitachi
DESKSTAR ), the hard drive is partitioned in two, before the problem,
Windows XP says that both partitions were dynamic and let me access them
trough units M and N...

now the disk manager says there is only one BASIC partition and when i try
to access the hard drive windows says that it doesnt have format.

what can i do?!

Time for some 3rd party data recovery software

 

[Bill Blanton]

Time for some 3rd party data recovery software

Yep. And don't use dynamic disks unless you have a solid backup
strategy in place.


File Scavenger claims to be able to recover files from a dynamic disk.
http://www.quetek.com/index.htm
Not free. The demo will show but not recover. Initial testing shows it
works on a spanned dynamic disk. I haven't tried it on a stripped volume.

 

[Guest]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
Investigate the possibilities, Photorec for Win XP may be able to snag your
data form the HDD..
Was able to recover my data from a formated HDD, using Photorec app from a
dos box in XP..
Cheers
j;-j