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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 04 May 2012, 23:55:42
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I have a zalman tower with 6 bay drives in it, I normally have it loaded with just 2 hard drives runiing windows XP and Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.
Decided to load up the 3rd hard drive which is a 500 mb drive, initially ended up adding the drive to windows 7 and it came up under the hard drive manage ment as a dynamic/foreign hard drive. As it was originally load under XP i booted into XPPro and it showed up the same way.
Having had this problem before I just used to import it and partion/format and carry on.
What utilites are there out there to sort this problem so that I can retrieve any data from it.
TIA. :y
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RIP Linux always works for me, although I can't guarantee it will read the data from a dynamic disk.
If you can't track it down, I can make an ISO image available for you to burn back to CD yourself.
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Just stumbled accross this post of mine whilst looking for something else.
Importing foreign drives? Just a thought , could it be anything to do with the fact I may have changed drive letter alloction in the past?
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this may help :y
http://www.alexnolan.net/articles/import_foreign_disks.htm (http://www.alexnolan.net/articles/import_foreign_disks.htm)
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Tried allsorts like that cem. Thing is I take a hard drive out of a machine and fit a larger one, or take it out because it is full. Then the PC get flattened or rebuilt and the hard drive gets forgoton about,
trying to import then as a foreign drive I end up losing all the data, just hoping I having lost any family photos on one of these.
Just wondering if data retrieval would get the info back before importing/formatting if things dont go right.
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A dynamic disk is, in reality, a pseudo GPT disk, which most Linux distros will read.
Foreign disk means its not reconised. Check bios settings, and if a large drive, LBA emulations
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Oh, and as is the phrase for today, WHERE ARE YOUR rather BACKUPS!
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Ah, word censor does not maintain case ;D