Corrupted Dynamic Disk

[Droiyan3]

Hello all!

My friend had a 2 viruses on his pc. He took his second HDD out of this PC to his home computer to clean it from viruses. The HDD was a 1 TB Maxtor DiamondMax 22. He connected everything fine and cleaned it from viruses, after he brought it back to his work computer , it was not working anymore.

I advised him opening up the Disk Management and look at the HDD, he told me that it was written *Dynamic Unreadable * . I told him not to touch anything and bring it to me.

there is very important data on this HDD so he told me that it was not an option to format the drive, which the system asked actually .

After doing some research i came to this article on MS support page http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320283

basically before doing so , I've checked the HDD with MHDD which showed that it was okey.

The thing is , that i've read this article too late and used a FIXMBR command , and another command from another software from Hirens boot CD , which replaced the original MBR, as it explained to me.

Now , when I restarted my pc , the Dynamic Unreadable sign is not there anymore, but instead i this message now.

Now, my question is , how can i make this drive readable again or if that is not an option , how can I extract the data from it ?

thank you very much

Diego

[Guest]

Active@ Partition Recovery works really good.

http://www.partition-recovery.com/

[jaclaz]

@Droiyan3

There are good chances that TESTDISK can rebuild a partition table:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

make SURE you read docs and howto's BEFORE attempting the recovery.

If the partitin trable cannot be rebuilt, you still have an option to recover SOME data using PHOTOREC (companion app to TESTDISK):

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

jaclaz

[Droiyan3]

thanks Guys , will try it now