Oh joy, the dynamic disk issue... again

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Scott Cory

I have seen other posts on this but hope there has been some "magic"
since those posts.

I just formatted C: with winxppro. But before I did that I moved my
data (all 120 gigs of it !) to drive D:. Now I am looking at my
newly formatted winxp explorer and see NO drive D:. When I go to
computer management/disk management it shows:
Disk 1
Dynamic
Unreadable

Now I dont remember making this a dynamic disk but I installed it in a
hurry.
Can anyone give me ANY ideas what I can do to get my data off of this
drive?

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott
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Scott ,
you probably need to create a boot floppy with the overlay so you can
access the drive and copy the files . if you go to the manufactures
site they have the utilities you need .
hope this helps ,
terry

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Scott said:
I have seen other posts on this but hope there has been some "magic"
since those posts.

I just formatted C: with winxppro. But before I did that I moved my
data (all 120 gigs of it !) to drive D:. Now I am looking at my
newly formatted winxp explorer and see NO drive D:. When I go to
computer management/disk management it shows:
Disk 1
Dynamic
Unreadable

Now I dont remember making this a dynamic disk but I installed it in a
hurry.
Can anyone give me ANY ideas what I can do to get my data off of this
drive?
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Windows help shows this:

"Cause:

The basic or dynamic disk is not accessible and might have experienced
hardware failure, corruption, or I/O errors. The disk's copy of the system's
disk configuration database might be corrupted. An error icon appears on
disks that display the Unreadable status.

Disks might also display the Unreadable status while they are spinning up or
when Disk Management is rescanning all of the disks on the system. In some
cases, an unreadable disk has failed and is not recoverable. For dynamic
disks, the Unreadable status usually results from corruption or I/O errors
on part of the disk, rather than failure of the entire disk.

Solution:

Rescan the disks or restart the computer to see if the disk status changes.
For instructions describing how to rescan the disks, see To update disk
information.

For more information about disk status descriptions, see Disk status
descriptions."



Did you verify that the disc was indeed working (data was readable)after you
had copied all 120GB of data onto it? Could be that this large copy
operation pushed your disc too hard.
 
terry_b17 said:
Scott ,
you probably need to create a boot floppy with the overlay so you can
access the drive and copy the files . if you go to the manufactures
site they have the utilities you need .
hope this helps ,
Click to expand...

Uh, Terry, go into your Windows XP help and look up "dynamic disk". That
phrase does not mean what you think it means.
 
Thanks and sorry for the delay. In Orlando right now and there is
some kind of minor wind storm :) creating havoc.

Actually I did not copy all 120 gigs at the same time and said that
just to make a shorter post. There was about 100 gigs of regular data
on drive D: that I was using for storage and I put another 20 gigs on
for backup just before I formatted C:. The data I put on and the
recent data was all fine and the drive was working for a couple of
hours leading up to the format of C:. I have seen several other posts
of others who had done the same thing but never saw a solution.

Thanks again for any thoughts.

Scott

PS. That "Mission To Space" ride at Epcot center kicks ass like no
ride I have ever been on ! No lines anywhere down here as everyone
is off in storm cellars somewhere.
 
Thanks and sorry for the delay. In Orlando right now and there is
some kind of minor wind storm :) creating havoc.

Actually I did not copy all 120 gigs at the same time and said that
just to make a shorter post. There was about 100 gigs of regular data
on drive D: that I was using for storage and I put another 20 gigs on
for backup just before I formatted C:. The data I put on and the
recent data was all fine and the drive was working for a couple of
hours leading up to the format of C:. I have seen several other posts
of others who had done the same thing but never saw a solution.

Thanks again for any thoughts.

Scott

PS. That "Mission To Space" ride at Epcot center kicks ass like no
ride I have ever been on ! No lines anywhere down here as everyone
is off in storm cellars somewhere.
 
How large is the physical disk? If > 137 Gb make sure you have SP1 installed
or otherwise XP may not be able to read the LDM (at the end of the disk).
 
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