how to get back my Data from a unallocated Dynamic Disk

[ideas]

my 160 gig HDD filled with Data is unreadable in Win XP also it is recognised as a Unallocated Dynamic Disk, how can i get my data back or let this drive be readable again?

[firefoxthebomb]

you could try GetDataBack.

[allen2]

I'll try r-studio or acronis disk director if there was another kind of partition before.

[fizban2]

getdataback works really well i would try that first, you could also try booting in a BartPe if you have one and getting the info there

[TheFlash428]

getdataback works really well i would try that first, you could also try booting in a BartPe if you have one and getting the info there

...or try a linux live CD, like Knoppix.

[LLXX]

getdataback works really well i would try that first, you could also try booting in a BartPe if you have one and getting the info there

...or try a linux live CD, like Knoppix.

As far as I'm aware, Linux doesn't have full NTFS filesystem support yet. I think it can do read and write, but none of the enhanced features are supported.

[jaclaz]

Most probably you simply have a corrupted MBR partition entry on that disk.

You can try AFTER having backed up the mbr with a tool like MBRFIX or MBRWIZARD,

links:

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net

either command line or with my pseudo-GUI or with this other AutoIt one:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10684

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10956

http://mbrwizard.tripod.com/

Use beeblebrox:

http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/

To change the partition type from 42 to the ID that it was before, i.e. 07 for NTFS, 06 for primary FAT16, etc, reference here:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

42 Windows 2000 dynamic extended partition marker

If a partition table entry of type 0x42 is present in the legacy partition table, then W2K ignores the legacy partition table and uses a proprietary partition table and a proprietary partitioning scheme (LDM or DDM). As the Microsoft KnowledgeBase writes: Pure dynamic disks (those not containing any hard-linked partitions) have only a single partition table entry (type 42) to define the entire disk. Dynamic disks store their volume configuration in a database located in a 1-MB private region at the end of each dynamic disk.

If the above does not work, RESTORE the MBR and try using testdisk on the HD:

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

jaclaz