Dynamic Disk???

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Somehow one of our disks was "changed" to list as a Dynamic Disk (200 GB)
and doesn't show in My Computer but is displayed in the BIOS and in Device
Manager.

How do we get this back to a useable hard drive if possible? There is a lot
of data on it that we don't want to loose.

thanks
 
Forgot to mention this is not the OS boot disk just an additional hard drive
that my kids use for their music etc.
 
JT said:
Somehow one of our disks was "changed" to list as a Dynamic Disk
(200 GB) and doesn't show in My Computer but is displayed in the
BIOS and in Device Manager.

How do we get this back to a useable hard drive if possible? There
is a lot of data on it that we don't want to loose.
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Move the data off, delete the partitions on it and create a BASIC disk out
of it - format it and copy all your stuff back.
If you are actually concerned about losing the stuff on it - you can use
your current backup methodology to accomplish this.
 
Shenan said:
Move the data off, delete the partitions on it and create a BASIC disk out
of it - format it and copy all your stuff back.
If you are actually concerned about losing the stuff on it - you can use
your current backup methodology to accomplish this.
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Looks to me like he can't access it. It 'doesn't show in My Computer'.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
JT said:
Somehow
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The answer to your problems may involve that "somehow". Disks don't change
themselves, this disk was changed to a dynamic disk by someone. You should
find out who and exactly what they did.
one of our disks was "changed" to list as a Dynamic Disk (200 GB) and
doesn't show in My Computer but is displayed in the BIOS and in Device
Manager.

How do we get this back to a useable hard drive if possible? There is a
lot of data on it that we don't want to loose.
Click to expand...

Assuming that changing to a dynamic disk is all that has been done, the
partition should still be there on the disk. Go into disk manager and ensure
the disk is marked as online. Right click it and select the option to bring
it online if it is not.

Next, if you still can't see the partition in My Computer, right click on it
in disk manager and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and assign it a
drive letter. If no partitions are visible then your problem is not that
someone 'upgraded' this disk to a dynamic disk but rather that they decided
to helpfully format the disk at the same time.
 
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