I recently changed from Win2K to XP and discovered that dynamic disks are not
supported by XP. I re-installed Win2K and now I find that my one dynamic
disk is 'unreadable' from the Disk Management console. When I right click
the disk in the Disk Management console the only options I get are 'Convert
to Basic Disk,' 'Properties' and 'Help.' When I click on 'Conver to Basic
Disk' it tells that by doing so I will lose all my data.

Question: Is there a way to get access to the data on the disk without
losing it?

Error Message About Partition Appears When You Install Windows XP to a Dynamic Volume
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283421/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Steve" wrote:

| I recently changed from Win2K to XP and discovered that dynamic disks are not
| supported by XP. I re-installed Win2K and now I find that my one dynamic
| disk is 'unreadable' from the Disk Management console. When I right click
| the disk in the Disk Management console the only options I get are 'Convert
| to Basic Disk,' 'Properties' and 'Help.' When I click on 'Conver to Basic
| Disk' it tells that by doing so I will lose all my data.
|
| Question: Is there a way to get access to the data on the disk without
| losing it?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

I apologize. I should've been more clear.

There are two physical drives. The 1st drive was a basic disk and this is
where the OS resides. The dynamic drive is the 2nd physical drive in the
machine and it is the drive that is currently unreadable.

If the data cannot be recovered using tools in the OS does anyone have any
suggestions regarding data recovery software that might provide me a
solution??