Recovering existing data from Dynamic Unreadable HDD

[DJ]

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Hi all

I have a problem getting Win2000 Pro to be able to read a HDD which has, for
some reason, become unrecognizable.
The symptoms are that Windows Explorer shows the drive as being "Local Disk
(D". ie It's there but it doesn't show its original volume label. Clicking
on it produces "D:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect". Disk
Management describes the drive as being "Dynamic Unreadable" and doesn't
display any info about its contents.

The drive is a data disk (not the boot disk) and has an NTFS format. It
hasn't been partitioned at any times so I'm not sure what caused the
problem.

I've done a disk scan using iRecover (Trial version), which revealed that
all of the original directories are still intact. It also revealed that
there is an NTFS partition occupying the entire disk, with a zero-length
FAT16 partition at the end. The bad news is that when iRecover gave me the
opportunity to recover the data, I was only allowed to select a single
directory and it doesn't (appear to) include sub-directories. Since it takes
about an hour to run iRecover would be a bit tedious to recover everything
this way.

Can anyone recommend a method to solve this problem without having to pay
for something that teases innocent people!!??

TIA

DJ

 

[joeP]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

"DJ" <DJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:407b652d_2@news.chariot.net.au...
> Hi all
>
> I have a problem getting Win2000 Pro to be able to read a HDD which has,
for
> some reason, become unrecognizable.
> The symptoms are that Windows Explorer shows the drive as being "Local
Disk
> (D". ie It's there but it doesn't show its original volume label.
Clicking
> on it produces "D:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect". Disk
> Management describes the drive as being "Dynamic Unreadable" and doesn't
> display any info about its contents.
>
> The drive is a data disk (not the boot disk) and has an NTFS format. It
> hasn't been partitioned at any times so I'm not sure what caused the
> problem.
>
> I've done a disk scan using iRecover (Trial version), which revealed that
> all of the original directories are still intact. It also revealed that
> there is an NTFS partition occupying the entire disk, with a zero-length
> FAT16 partition at the end. The bad news is that when iRecover gave me the
> opportunity to recover the data, I was only allowed to select a single
> directory and it doesn't (appear to) include sub-directories. Since it
takes
> about an hour to run iRecover would be a bit tedious to recover everything
> this way.
>

Of course after purchasing iRecover, sub directories CAN be included + the
full version can import the state files created by the trial so the disk
scan can be skipped.

--
Joep

 

[DJ]

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Joep wrote in message <1081866043.872032@waldorf.isd-holland.nl>...
>"DJ" <DJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:407b652d_2@news.chariot.net.au...


>> <snip>
>
>Of course after purchasing iRecover, sub directories CAN be included + the
>full version can import the state files created by the trial so the disk
>scan can be skipped.
>
>--
>Joep
>
Thanks Joep. I'll keep that in mind.

DJ