Lost Data - HELP
Monday, July 7, 2003 at 8:16 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andrew Murphy
(57 messages posted)
If anybody can help me with this problem I'll remember you in my will. I have really
messed things up. I have three hard disks: 2x 40GB + 1x 60GB. I converted them all
to Dynamic disks (don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good idea). I wanted to
make a backup image of my windows partition but my software can't make an image of
a Dynamic Disk. So I then thought it wasn't such a good idea after all to have my
disks as dynamic, so I decided to revert them all to basic disks. The problem here
is that they have to be deleted first. So I spent about five hours moving my files
around from one partition to another in order to be able to delete the partitions.
It was very complicated because I have a lot of files. I thought I had done everything
right but at the end of it all there was an "unknown" Dynamic Partition which was
18GB. As I reckoned I had everything I needed I simply deleted this partition. Well!!!
My most important folder was gone. It was "D:\My Stuff" and contained all my private
files (letters, calanders, passwords etc etc etc). I have downloaded every data recovery
demo I can find and none of them find anything from the time the disks were Dynamic
Disks. They find only files which were moved or deleted since I reverted to Basic
disks. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
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