Windows Vista Ultimate 64bits invalid disk

[Andreas Friedrich berendsen]

Hello all

I had a valid working copy of Windows Vista 64 bits on an AMD 64 x2 with 2GB
of memory and 4 SATA disks. Last week, after a reboot, Windows cycle to
reboot after the CRCDISK.SYS driver. Aftre replacing the MoBo, memory, PSU
and Video Card the prolem still persist. I installed a second copy of Windows
in a new disk and, from that disk, I was trying to figure out if I can see
the contents of my disks and, for my sureprise, Disk Manager can see the
physical disks but can not activate them. Using DISKPART, all the disks are
marked as INVALID. Booting the Windows DVD, none of the previous disks are
seen by the Windows installer. Using Paragon Disk Manager I can see the disks
and the volumes (a spanned one) but I can not rebuild the volumes. Using a
data recovery prgtam I can see recover the contents of the disks but all the
files seems to be encrypted. I guess that I have a problem with BitLock
(which I do not recall to have installed it). Since Windows still can boot
from the boot partition (but hangs after CRCDISK with erro 0x00000007b) in
one of the problematic disks, how can I recovber the disks?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The TakeOwn utility is probably going to do it.

How to Use the TakeOwn Utility to Manage Shares in Windows NT 4.0:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269269/en-us

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[Andreas Friedrich Berendsen]

I'm using Vista x64. How this utility will help me?

 

[Andreas Friedrich Berendsen]

Using Paragon Hard Disk Manager I can see the partitions of the first disk.
And, most important, I can see the contents of the first partition, which is
the boot partition. But I can not see the contents of the next three disks
where are a spanned volume (the second partition of the 1st disk and the
whole three remaining disks).

From a stantdar Windows Vista boot disk (a 5th disk) I can see the physical
disks but I can Activate them.

 

[Andreas Friedrich Berendsen]

After using GetDataBack, version 3.02, the filesystems are identified as
"Secure file system (Peter Gutman). Using version 4.3, the volumes are
identified as Dynamic volumes.

Right now I'm in porcess to restore the files from the 1st disk. My
tentatives to use the same GetDataBack to restore files from the 2nd, 3rd
and 4th disks were null. Any idea how can I recover files from the rest of
the spanned volume?


"Andreas Friedrich berendsen"