RC1 does not mount one of three disk drives

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Jacob Levanon

I have installed RC1 on my desktop. I have two internal and one external
disk drives.
The installation completed well and everything seems to be working fine. One
(huge) problem: vista is not mounting my second drive (even though it
recognizes it as being there). It mounts the 0 disk and the external one,
but not the second. When I pull up the disk manager it sees the hardware and
claims that its working properly, but it does not mount the files system -
it only offers to create a basic partition on this disk (i.e. - lose the
ordinal data). Originally I run XP on this desktop and had no problems with
the drive. With XP this disk had a dynamic partition (I don't remember why
it was set up this way).

Any ideas on how I can recover the data from this disk?

Thank you,
Jacob
 
The data is still there. Import the disk as 'foreign' from within Disk
Management.


I have installed RC1 on my desktop. I have two internal and one external
disk drives.
The installation completed well and everything seems to be working fine. One
(huge) problem: vista is not mounting my second drive (even though it
recognizes it as being there). It mounts the 0 disk and the external one,
but not the second. When I pull up the disk manager it sees the hardware and
claims that its working properly, but it does not mount the files system -
it only offers to create a basic partition on this disk (i.e. - lose the
ordinal data). Originally I run XP on this desktop and had no problems with
the drive. With XP this disk had a dynamic partition (I don't remember why
it was set up this way).

Any ideas on how I can recover the data from this disk?

Thank you,
Jacob
 
How do I do that? I don't seem to see the option of importing as "foreign"
in the disk management utility.

Thank you for your help.
 
Try right-clicking the unmounted partition in Disk Management, select
"Change Drive Letters and Path", then click the Add button to add a drive
letter. If Vista prompts you to format the disk, say no. That should mount
the disk and make it visible.

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Don't have (see) these options when right-clicking on the disk. When I use
"disk management", the file is shown offline, but there are no options
beside "Convert to Basic disk", "Properties" or "Help".

Tried to use diskpart. Given the output below, looks like vista does not
support dynamic disks from XP. When I use the disk part utility:

DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Din Got
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 75 GB 1925 KB
Disk 1 Invalid 186 GB 0 B *
Disk 2 Online 190 GB 12 MB
Disk 3 Online 977 MB 0 B

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> import

Virtual Disk Service error:
The dynamic disks are not supported by this operating system.


The arguments you specified for this command are not valid.

Not sure what to do at this point.

Any ideas?

Thank you.


Richard G. Harper said:
Try right-clicking the unmounted partition in Disk Management, select
"Change Drive Letters and Path", then click the Add button to add a drive
letter. If Vista prompts you to format the disk, say no. That should
mount the disk and make it visible.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
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Jacob Levanon said:
How do I do that? I don't seem to see the option of importing as
"foreign" in the disk management utility.

Thank you for your help.
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On the Disk Management window you will see a list of the drives listed using
the labels "Disk 0", "Disk 1" etc.
Right Click on the label for the disk in question and take it from there.
 
"Jacob Levanon" <[email protected]>
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Virtual Disk Service error:
The dynamic disks are not supported by this operating system.
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What version of RC1 are you running ?
In XP, Home did not support dynamic disks, only Pro.

/HC
 
Jacob Levanon said:
I am running RC1 build 5600
-jell
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Hi Jacob.
It would be nice if you answered under, not over :-)

As I asked, what version, not build, are you running ?
Are you running Ultimate, or do you run one of the other various
versions of RC1 b.5600 ?


/HC
 
Sorry, - your recommendation did not work. I am now experimenting with a few
disk recovery software utilities. I am running in demo mode and trying to
determine which one to purchase. Those seem to have no problem finding the
disk and the files on it.

Thank you for asking.

-jl
 
Harald Andersen said:
Hi Jacob.
It would be nice if you answered under, not over :-)

As I asked, what version, not build, are you running ?
Are you running Ultimate, or do you run one of the other various
versions of RC1 b.5600 ?


/HC
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Looks like I have the Home Premium Edition. Should I get thew Ultimate? How
do I get it?

-jl
 
Jacob Levanon said:
Looks like I have the Home Premium Edition. Should I get thew
Ultimate? How do I get it?

-jl
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If Vista treat's dynamic disks the same way as XP,
you may not be able to use any of the Home versions.
I have been usinng Google, but have yet to come up with an answer,
I suggest you try yourself, unless someone in this newsgroup knows
the answer to the Q :
Does Windows Vista Home Premium support Dynamic Disks ?

Should you get the Ultimate ? Actually, you have it :-)
The DVD comes with all the different versions,
and you install the one you have a key for.

Anyone who got their copy through the CPP program,
was given a Ultimate key, so that the only one I have tried so far.
Where did you get your Home Premium key from ?

/HC
 
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