Recovering data from a Disk 1, Dynamic, unreadable

[Angus Comber]

Hello

I have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB ATA 133 hard drive which I cannot
read. To try to read the data on the disk I attached the disk to my Windows
XP machine and booted up. I do not see the disk in Explorer. If I look in
Disk management (Control Panel... Admin icon, Computer management, Disk
Management) I see this:

Disk 1 (with a red cross)
Dynamic
Unreadable

What can I do to recover this data?

What tools can I use?

Ideally I don't want to pay 100's of dollars to a data recovery company
(although if I have to maybe).

Angus Comber
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Angus,

What happened to it initially that you are trying to recover data from it?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Angus Comber]

One day booted up computer and it didn't see my second D: drive.

Angus

 

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Angus Comber schreef:

Hello

I have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB ATA 133 hard drive which I cannot
read. To try to read the data on the disk I attached the disk to my Windows
XP machine and booted up. I do not see the disk in Explorer. If I look in
Disk management (Control Panel... Admin icon, Computer management, Disk
Management) I see this:

Disk 1 (with a red cross)
Dynamic
Unreadable

What can I do to recover this data?

What tools can I use?

Ideally I don't want to pay 100's of dollars to a data recovery company
(although if I have to maybe).

Angus Comber
(e-mail address removed)

Look for someone with Arconis Recovery Expert bootable CD
or Bart's PE-Builder bootable CD
or Winternals ERD commander bootable CD

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Have you run the disk checker on it? What did it report?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org