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Hard drive help
« on: 04 May 2012, 23:55:42 »
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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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #1 on: 05 May 2012, 09:11:53 »
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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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #2 on: 02 August 2012, 16:05:25 »
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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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #4 on: 02 August 2012, 17:44:22 »
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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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #5 on: 02 August 2012, 18:36:28 »
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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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #6 on: 02 August 2012, 18:37:24 »
Oh, and as is the phrase for today, WHERE ARE YOUR rather BACKUPS!
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Re: Hard drive help
« Reply #7 on: 02 August 2012, 18:37:46 »
Ah, word censor does not maintain case ;D
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