anyone.. ?

it was like this, my friends got Seagate HD (80G) and have two partition on it.he used it as extrenal storage (USB). suddenly, one of the partition can't be read/access at all, the other one can. so he send it to one of the IT shop (at Lowyat - Hypermarket something) to recover it since he need his project data on it.

To make it worst, after he send it to that shop... both of the partition can't be read anymore and the disk now mark as DYNAMIC Disc (Unreadble) when used Disk management.

so, question is, is there any way to recover that partition? if does.. how to do it?

thanks in advance.

i aedi ask almost same situation like u but until now no reply that i can retrieve that data except using data recovery software.
u can visit the link here.
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...6526&hl=dynamic

I'm kinda caught by this weird problems of drives reverting to Dynamic disks.

I suspect it could be the use of SATA hard drive. Possibly the SATA RAID driver bugs or operating system bugs which a "new drive" (if not recognized) will be converted to dynamic disk setup (this is similar to NRAID configuration).

For those who did not encounter this problem yet, I suggest not to install any SATA RAID drivers but just the normal SATA drivers instead (most manufacturers have 2 driver versions - one for RAID and the other for non-RAID setup).

Another thing to watch out for is disk spanning (used for dynamic disk setups) also... If you are not using it, then disable this.

So far I had 6 external USB HDDs (and all Seagates inside) and none of them had exhibit these kind of problems.

Anyway.. WHAT brand and model is that external HDD case?

There is a data recovery service in Low Yat though, on the 3rd floor. Its called SCS-Myung. I suggest you ask for pricing first before trying it.. it may be quite expensive.

Reference: http://www.scs-myung.com/

Anyway would like to ask a few questions here:

Which WinXP operating system are you using?
1. Home Edition
2. Pro Edition
3. Corporate Edition

What Serive Pack are you using?
1. No Service Pack installed
2. Pre-Installed SP1 (comes with the WinXP)
3. Updated to SP1
4. Updated to SP2

Did you intsall any drive utilities such as Norton Utilities?

Did you install any drive auto-defragment utilities like "Disk Keeper"?

Can you list down your detailed full PC hardware specifications?

For research.. need to know if there are similarities in these cases.

Lex:

- Using WinXP Pro
- Service Pack 2
- no Norton Utilites (only norton antivirus)
- No disk keeper also
- Forgot the spec since it not in my pc.. it was my friends.. ask me to help him.. got so many project data in it.. pitty him.

Yup.. my friends already went to Data recovery shop at low yat, but its closed .. maybe next week.

now, he was very angry with the tech guy at that Hypermarket shop that make the disk morst.. (both of it can't be read at all)

thanks for the reply.. need to send it to data recovery.. ..

thanks again

From what I gather from other forum.. This issue of drives being assigned by Windows XP as dynamic disks arise when the drive letter assigned is used by another drive (usually a fixed drive) already installed. Since the drive already exists, then Windows XP doesn't know what do with it and re-assigns it as dynamic disk (because having the same drive letter).

What was the drive letter assigned to your drive before it suddenly became dynamic disk?

Try use R-Studio for NTFS for data recovery (Support Dynamic DIsk)..

problem.... solved!!! using Active@Recovery Software (for ntfs)

both partition and all data are savely recovered!! no need to send it to data recovery center at lo yat... may be i will visit that hypermarket and told them how i did it..

thanks for your support

Active@Recovery , whr r u download ? Is it free ?

i want to know where is that being downloaded too..

where to download it?

off BT kua.. i used ontrack datarecovery

For Ontrack...

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoverydatarecovery/

nampak cozack punya special weapon lagi chun wor, atau mana yg bagus sekali?

Get It here Active@ product....

http://www.active-undelete.com/products.htm

my friend had the same prob.

i took his hard disk, put it in my pc, and suprisingly, i could read it....

i backed all the data into my ext hd and passed it back to him.

back home, my friend plugged his hd back into his drive and yet...he couldnt do anything....so he reformatted it...and retrieved his data from my hd.

but i'm curious....why can i read it when he cant?

Is there any freeware data recovery for FAT and FAT32, Active@Data recovery is only support reading from ntfs and ntfs5, and Ontrack Data Recovery is not freeware..

Dynamic disks can only be used in WinXP Pro and Windows 2000. Windows XP Home, Windows 95, 98 etc cannot use dynamic disks. Search for "dynamic disk" in Google, there're alot of articles about it.

If u need to downgrade from Pro to Home (like me), you need to convert the disk's data back to basic disk.

What I did was I copied out my files from HDD 1 to HDD 2 in WinXP Pro, then used the Disk Management tool to convert HDD 1 to basic disk... then copy everything back. Very mafan. I haven't tested the programs listed earlier, but if they work, use them. It'll make life alot easier.

i use stellar pheonix recovery. it can support FAT, NTFS and Linux format also, works great, can recover file in bad sector hdd too..

Guys i think i'm having the same problem here...not too sure about it tho...

i've a 40Gb and 80GB hdd. The 40gb are my OS and prog files and the other hdd (80gb) are my datafiles,video and mp3s.

in my 80GB there are 3 partitions. strangely one of the partitions when i double click on it, a dialog box pops out saying this drive is not formatted, do you wnat to format it?

I went to the computer management and check the partition is with a FATor NTSF and its just empty there.

Any idea how can i recover the data in that partition. Before this happenned the partition's space is fully maxed out (could this be the reason?). Now i cant even browse the partition.

Cheers.

I suggest that you check the harddisk vendor. Goto their websites, normally they have tools to check for problem in your hardisk.

To recover data, try using easy recovery by Ontrack. This data recovery program is quite good. I am not sure whether you can download it from their websites. If not try to get it in LYP. I did a data recovery on my 80GB hardisk which is complaining of errors.

Happy recovery.

I just recovered my Maxtor 40GB using Stellar Phoenix NTFS, just that you have 2 recover all the files to another drive, or you can choose to recover folder by folder.

soccergod pls help me..
do u dl the original version of stellar phoenix ntfs
coz i found the software,and successfully found all deleted files..
but it cant recover back to my pc..
do i need to pay for it? or is there any other way??

How to recover the data i'm not so sure but this thing do happen to me during my final year. my hardisk crash and all the project gone. I sent to to someone else to recover the data coz i've try many ways to recover it but can't.

same problem here. I'm trying out Active@Recovery but it is a demo version. where to get full?

bt will do~~

seems like all is shareware
have to pay lor...
how......

if u sent to the data restore center, they require a very clean place to do their duty.

Good day, i have the same problem...I accidentally touch the molex connector on my Maxtor harddisk, damn, my pc hang. After re-boot, Oh my god, i keep on saying to myself, wtf and wts, all my data in my Maxtor harddisk gone..i can't even know what is the file format because the windows XP need me to initialize my harddisk and then need to format in order to use back the maxtor harddisk..I say to God, i dont care on my HK drama, i just want back my photo ( around 3.5GB ). I have become a mad man searching the internet looking for the solution and at last.....
Thank for this PINNED topic, i quickly get the ontrack EasyRecovery Pro v6.03 from internet (if you want to know how, please PM me, it is not good to publish the way to get the software). After download the USER GUIDE from Ontrack ( this is VERY IMPORTANT ), and read through, then i know what should i do.
I select RAW recovery. After letting the ontrack software scan on the maxtor harddisk, almost all the files recover (especially my photo). You just need to prepare an extra harddisk which is big enough for your data and files recovery in your old harddisk.
I would like to say thank you to Ontrack and Lowyat.net.

Now i am waiting for my files to be recover....Wish that all the lyn member discover the way to recover harddisk important files when WinXP can't recognize the File Format..

It take around 1hour and 20minutes to recover around 8.5GB of files..for the ontrack software..

Just a little bit sad because all my photo which over 2mb per photo can't recover perfectly, all my 8MP picture had been resize to 160 x 120. OMG, that is just i can say. Anyway the other type of file can be recover.
I am trying and searchin for the software which can recover photo in jpeg format ( the photo itself is over 2mb ).
Or does anyone know which software can do this perfectly??
Thank you and have a nice day.

Good day,
Finally i found the software that can meet my requirement and this software is really powerful.

Compare to the OnTrack EasyRecovery, the Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS is far more powerful than the OnTrack, but the User Interface is not attractive as the OnTrack.

After the comparison between the OnTrack and Stellar Phoenix, i will recommend the Stellar for more advance recover (like my photo-2mb case). As conclusion, both software perform well in normal recover task.
Thank you and have a nice day.

i dont know whether it is appropriate to put this here ....

a friend of mine help me to assemble pc, i gratefully thank him for setting up my pc , however , there is one thing i dont understand, why he divided my harddisk into 3 partitions , and the C drive with total size just 4 GB , izzit suitable?

i am a stranger to this stuff, hope someone can help me

when u dun trust his profesional knowledge in pc, why u let him to do the assembly for u?


divide to few partition is normal, especially when u have a big capacity of hard disc
but 4gb for c a little too little, unless u dun install alot game and application need a large hard disc space

and for the recovery of my hard disc has fail, it show that my hard disc are unable to access and retrieve the data
sob sob

ontrack EasyRecovery Pro v6.03 lose to Stellar Phonenix Fat & NTFS?
any reffer url for stellar?

How about the latest version of Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro 6.10.07 as compared to Stellar Phoenix ?

i didnt say i dont trust his knowledges

i just wonder if 4 GB C drive is too little for me

anyway thanks , i've formatted my pc

I should have checked this thread earlier, my maxtor hdd facing this problem too, too bad i formated it already

Good day,
with the stellar software, you can recover the formatted harddisk data.....

Good day,
In the case for the recover folder and file name, the ontrack will set their own file and folder name, while the Stellar software let you to have a glance view on the recover data with the previous folder and files name.....

oh the irony of it all.

first you steal ontrack software by using a cracked copy. next you thank them pula.

lol!

why not thank them buy actually paying for a copy of their software?

Ontrack actually has a distributor in Malaysia? Wanna thank them personally?

Ontrack's software is actually not that powerful, but it puts everything in an easy to understand package.. it doesnt work at the lower levels of the drive operation...

guys what about this RecoverMyFile software?

if you're talking bout just recovering from deleted files/folders then give it a try.... dont recommend RecoverMyFile though.. there are lots more established names around..

ooooh ok ok..thanks for thepointer.

btw my problem is that windows recognizes my drive as 'unformatted'

sure i guess that the above mention 2 software are the best around?

just run the software and select the drive you want to recover.. any software will do cause your problem is actually quite simple to solve..

I'm using a WD 80GB hd. I used PartitionMagic to create a new partition but instead created 2 accidentally. So I tried to merge both the 2 new partitons into a single partition but it fails.

Now, my old partiton becomes inactive and hidden. After toying around with a couple of times of merging and creating new partitions, even PartitionMagic could not load now. It states that the partition table could not be loaded. Any idea on what actually went wrong or how to solve this problem ?

Snapshot of my storage management console

like above... try running the data recovery software... the whole table is lost, file locations are lost, got a chance that maybe some percentage of your files will be lost unless you do a raw recovery..

Is this R-studio DOS or Windows based ? Am trying to look for a DOS based one that can access and remove dynamic disks

running recovery...in progress now...shall update youguys on the outcome!

finger crossed!

Use Knoppix LiveCD and run QtParted to fix the partition table. RTFM on howtos and good luck!

good.managed to reclaim back all the photos in my drive..somephotos i think its being resized...not sure..have to ask the owner. I'll try on some audio and video files and see if there are any issues.

Restoring 1800++ files took only 1-2 hours. Vid and audio i believe will take ages. The restoring rate is somewhere between 300-400KB per second. Well depends on your pc spec i believe.

Cheers.

Works on Dynamic disk ? without booting into Windows 2000/XP ?

i've recovered somefiles...but right after i restart my pc...i got some DNS problem..my network completion out and i couldnt connect to the net!

hi all,

can any body help me. i think i have a weird problem. i'm trying to install P2P software call DC++. then after install that software required to do "hashing" in my hard disk in order to share my file. the problem is when hashing process still running ( about 60 % ), i had restart my pc. this is because it take to long to do that job and i could not wait. after restart PC my hard disk cannot be read. i had try to use maxtor tools download from internet to recover even use minimal format also my hard disk failed. so anybody sifoo that can help me on this matter. my hard disk is maxtor diamond 40 Gb ATA/133 HDD. thanks any way.