Is there any way to recover information from a disk that was part of a spanned volume that failed?
I had 2 80 GB disks with 98 GB of data encapsulated in SQL databases, but the second disk failed after diskpart failed to extend the volume onto a third disk. Now the entire volume is innaccessible and I really need a way to recover at least some of my information back; any ideas?

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for all its worth.
lol   werner
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-36,GGLD:en&q=recover+data+from+spanned+volume

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Lol. I really should try Google before I post to this site again....
Anyhoo, thanks for that, but since they're all commercial and only freely available in demo versions, they don't necessarily work completely....It didnt solve my problem :{

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not sure,but you might find some Freeware Apps here.
:)    werner
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

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miffy900
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On Friday, August 26, 2005 at 3:03 am, miffy900 wrote:

>Is there any way to recover information from a disk that was part of a spanned volume 

>that failed?


>I had 2 80 GB disks with 98 GB of data encapsulated in SQL databases, but the second 

>disk failed after diskpart failed to extend the volume onto a third disk. Now the 

>entire volume is innaccessible and I really need a way to recover at least some 
of 

>my information back; any ideas? 

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It looks good. I've tried these kinds of CD booter images before, and most of them have some discrepancies accessing dynamic disks. Does this one have any trouble accessing dynamic disks? Or any volumes that are spanned volumes?

Also, do you know of any CD booters that can access 64-bit, dynmic GPT disks? Like the ones for the Itanium Platform that use the EFI.

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I suggest you use DataRecoveryWizard to recover your data. DataRecoveryWizard is a complete range of data recovery software for all Windows operating system platforms and supports various file systems on various storage media. DataRecoveryWizard provides very useful functions for data recovery: "DeleteRecovery", "FormatRecovery", "AdvancedRecovery", "RawRecovery". This program ensures safe and precise file recovery against numerous threats like accidental file deletion and disk formatting and so on. You can input “DataRecoveryWizard” on Google.

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