Laptop Internal Hard Drive With Enclosure giving invalid status.

Sep 21, 2013
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Hello, I have a 1TB samsung laptop Internal hard drive, which i wanted to use as an external hard drive on my other laptop as my previous laptop's screen broke. At first my HDD wasn't getting detected as there was a HDD password on it, which i later removed. Now when i connect it to the new laptop with a seagate enclosure, it shows "Disk 1 - Dynamic - Invalid". Due to this I am unable to fetch any information on that disk. My new laptop has Windows 8 OS, where as the OS on the 1TB hard drive is Win 7 Ultimate, with that my new laptop's hard drive has a basic volume not dynamic (500GB)

Apart from this I am pretty sure that there is no problem with my 1TB hard drive as, i connected it to my older laptop, and connected the laptop to the projector, and it seems to work fine, apart from giving BSOD a couple of times at the starting.

What can I do to fix this, as I have a lot of Important information on that 1TB HDD which i want at any possible cost, as i am unable to get my older laptop repaired, and also that i want to use the HDD as an external drive from now on?

Please Help.

I did check it using cmd, Diskpart, list disk.

Its showing :

Disk ### : Disk 1

Status : Invalid

Size : 931GB

Free : 0KB

Dyn : *
 
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You say that you are using a Seagate enclosure. Be aware that the bridge firmware in Seagate's 3TB and 4TB external enclosures is configured for 4KB sector sizes, so that may be an additional problem.

If I were approaching this problem, I would examine sector 0 with a disc editor such as DMDE (freeware). You could then used DMDE to Search for Special Sectors -> Boot Sector. If you could provide this information, then we could see exactly what is happening.

Nikolay Savov

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Hi
It sound like you have clicked on the "Convert to Dynamic Disk" option under windows.

If you still can boot you old 1TB disk on you old laptop do it
Copy you needed data out
Take it out
Atach it to the new laptop
Format it

This will save you allot of spend time .......
 
You say that you are using a Seagate enclosure. Be aware that the bridge firmware in Seagate's 3TB and 4TB external enclosures is configured for 4KB sector sizes, so that may be an additional problem.

If I were approaching this problem, I would examine sector 0 with a disc editor such as DMDE (freeware). You could then used DMDE to Search for Special Sectors -> Boot Sector. If you could provide this information, then we could see exactly what is happening.
 
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