- Dynamic disk unreadable in Disk Management
- Posted by sljung on November 21st, 2005
How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
- Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on November 21st, 2005
Hi,
That article is for a Win2000 system and does not apply to WinXP. What sort
of problem are you having?
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"sljung" <sljung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
>
> I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
- Posted by Steve N. on November 22nd, 2005
Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That article is for a Win2000 system and does not apply to WinXP. What sort
> of problem are you having?
>
I can find no evidence of differences between Dynamic Disks as
implemented in 2K and XP.
Steve
- Posted by Steve N. on November 22nd, 2005
sljung wrote:
> How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
>
> I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
If you posted details about what you've done and are facing we'd be
better equiped to help you.
Steve N.
- Posted by sljung on November 22nd, 2005
I had to do a clean install on my system disk (C
to get XP work properly
after my two sons (5 & 6) deleted system files
The disk I'm trying to get back was converted to a dynamic disk (T but
when I got my computer up an running again the dynamic disk shows up as
"Unreadable" in Disk Management...
I've tried Acronis Recovery Expert (wich didn't find anything) and I've
looked at the Dskprobe.exe but I'm afraid I'll tamper with something beyond
my knowledge and loose the data on that disk for good...
"Steve N." wrote:
> sljung wrote:
>
> > How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
> >
> > I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
>
> If you posted details about what you've done and are facing we'd be
> better equiped to help you.
>
> Steve N.
>
>
- Posted by sljung on November 22nd, 2005
I've fixed it
Used Dskprobe and accessed the disk and changed it from dynamic to basic
Rebooted and there it was! All my pictures and music recovered
"sljung" wrote:
> I had to do a clean install on my system disk (C to get XP work properly
> after my two sons (5 & 6) deleted system files
>
> The disk I'm trying to get back was converted to a dynamic disk (T but
> when I got my computer up an running again the dynamic disk shows up as
> "Unreadable" in Disk Management...
>
> I've tried Acronis Recovery Expert (wich didn't find anything) and I've
> looked at the Dskprobe.exe but I'm afraid I'll tamper with something beyond
> my knowledge and loose the data on that disk for good...
>
> "Steve N." wrote:
>
> > sljung wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
> > >
> > > I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
> >
> > If you posted details about what you've done and are facing we'd be
> > better equiped to help you.
> >
> > Steve N.
> >
> >
- Posted by old jon on November 22nd, 2005
Now, Backup what you don`t want to lose !!!
>
"sljung" <sljung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:006F0775-BA66-4262-A540-68CD97C700E2@microsoft.com...
> I've fixed it
> Used Dskprobe and accessed the disk and changed it from dynamic to basic
> Rebooted and there it was! All my pictures and music recovered
>
> "sljung" wrote:
>
>> I had to do a clean install on my system disk (C to get XP work
>> properly
>> after my two sons (5 & 6) deleted system files
>>
>> The disk I'm trying to get back was converted to a dynamic disk (T but
>> when I got my computer up an running again the dynamic disk shows up as
>> "Unreadable" in Disk Management...
>>
>> I've tried Acronis Recovery Expert (wich didn't find anything) and I've
>> looked at the Dskprobe.exe but I'm afraid I'll tamper with something
>> beyond
>> my knowledge and loose the data on that disk for good...
>>
>> "Steve N." wrote:
>>
>> > sljung wrote:
>> >
>> > > How do I get the disk back to be readable or mountable as volumes?
>> > >
>> > > I've tried to understand the KB 236086 but I'm stuck!
>> >
>> > If you posted details about what you've done and are facing we'd be
>> > better equiped to help you.
>> >
>> > Steve N.
>> >
>> >
