dynamic drive import failed

[skykaptain]

Hello,

I'm sorry for this double post but when I posted in the Windows section no one helped me. My problem is one of my HHD's disappeared. When I enter computer management it says, "disk 1, import failed" and when I try to reactivate it nothing happens. The only options I am given are reactivate, convert to basic disk and properties. It is a dynamic disk that I can not loose the data on it. I have replaced the cables going to it so I know it's not them.

Last night I ran Seagate's SeaTools on both long and short tests and it passed both. I DL'ed FileScavenger (trial) to see if the disk can be read and found out it can.

Is there a way to reactivate the disk in Vista or is there another program I can use to get my data off it without reformatting or paying $50 for a full version of FileScavenger? Thanks.

[patio]

Why did you make it a Dynamic disk ? ?
Your best bet to retrieve the data if at all is to hook it up as a Slave drive on another machine but it being dynamic this may not even work...

http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/

[JJ 3000]

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

Good luck!

[mindfor]

Just wanted to bump this old thread because it works perfectly as at 25/7/2011. Downloaded the program (for free), unzipped, followed the instructions and the partition on a 750gig hard drive was restored - no data lost. Thank you to the authors of this program, I just made a donation.

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

Ric
Mindfor Studios.