restoring data from dynamic disk

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I have a 250G Maxtor that is unreadable, but it appears that
the only thing wrong with it is that I formatted it as a dynamic disk.
(oviously, not knowing what I was doing since I don't remember
doing the format that way) On top of that, later I tried to move
it to another machine, and get rid of the original bootdisk. Oooops.

How can I turn back a dynamic disk to a basic disk without losing
the data on it when I don't have the rest of the set? Alternatively, is
there any way/tool to read the data out from the drive?

TIA

 

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Hi John,
You can try disk probe which can be found under support tools:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/workstation/reskit/en-us/utilityw.mspx

Lukesh

"John Doe" wrote:

> I have a 250G Maxtor that is unreadable, but it appears that
> the only thing wrong with it is that I formatted it as a dynamic disk.
> (oviously, not knowing what I was doing since I don't remember
> doing the format that way) On top of that, later I tried to move
> it to another machine, and get rid of the original bootdisk. Oooops.
>
> How can I turn back a dynamic disk to a basic disk without losing
> the data on it when I don't have the rest of the set? Alternatively, is
> there any way/tool to read the data out from the drive?
>
> TIA
>
>
>