- Aug 28, 2013
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I just made the jump to windows 10 and one of my storage drives went all crazy on me.
Little bit of info:
About a month ago, I was testing out windows 10 on a partition of the same storage drive i'm having the issue with currently. Before installing windows 10 on this drive I converted it to a GPT disk. Today having made the upgrade on my actual system drive, I deleted the windows 10 partition from my storage drive, not needing a second windows install.
From there thats when issues arrised I tried extending my main volume to the now available space on the HDD and it didn't work, I cant remember the error but the color of my main volume changed to the orange/yellow.
After a Stystem restart the drive was no longer recognized. I tried clicking the reactivate disk button and get the following message - "This operation is not allowed on the invalid disk pack.". I ran a scan with EaseUS Recovery and all the files are still there on the "lost drive". I was going to use EaseUS Partition Master to convert the drive from Dynamic to Basic however I am a little woried about doing this since it says EFI/MSR partition will be lost after conversion if they existed on a GPT disk, and being that my disk is GPT im not sure if I will be able to recover my data after performing this step.
TL;DR: I kinda hope people will read the above however.
HDD volumes went screwy, HDD is now Dynamic instead of Basic, windows wont reactivate drive, HOW FIX?
Little bit of info:
About a month ago, I was testing out windows 10 on a partition of the same storage drive i'm having the issue with currently. Before installing windows 10 on this drive I converted it to a GPT disk. Today having made the upgrade on my actual system drive, I deleted the windows 10 partition from my storage drive, not needing a second windows install.
From there thats when issues arrised I tried extending my main volume to the now available space on the HDD and it didn't work, I cant remember the error but the color of my main volume changed to the orange/yellow.
After a Stystem restart the drive was no longer recognized. I tried clicking the reactivate disk button and get the following message - "This operation is not allowed on the invalid disk pack.". I ran a scan with EaseUS Recovery and all the files are still there on the "lost drive". I was going to use EaseUS Partition Master to convert the drive from Dynamic to Basic however I am a little woried about doing this since it says EFI/MSR partition will be lost after conversion if they existed on a GPT disk, and being that my disk is GPT im not sure if I will be able to recover my data after performing this step.
TL;DR: I kinda hope people will read the above however.
HDD volumes went screwy, HDD is now Dynamic instead of Basic, windows wont reactivate drive, HOW FIX?
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