re: Lost Data - HELP
Monday, July 7, 2003 at 8:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(1481 messages posted)
See if this helps:How to Recover a Dynamic Volume
On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 8:16 am, Andrew Murphy wrote:
>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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