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HELP... it seems i have made my VIP hardrive Dynamic and i CANNOT get acces

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by roise4000

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HELP... it seems i have made my V.I.P. harddrive Dynamic and i CANNOT get access to it... i don't know how i actually did it... i remember though doing it :), but it used to work fine. Now, almost a year later i am trying to gain access to it on a different machine, but it won't let me do anything to it... i have tried, Norton Partition Magic, going through 'safe mode'... nothing will make it work, the build-in windows disk management utility says if i would like it to revert my harddrive to normal state, but it would delete all the data inside, which of course, it's unacceptable :)

pls if u have any idea what might work... :) i have important home made video on it, that i cannot reproduce... anymore

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by nonapeptide

What exactly is the error message?

In disk management, you may have to import the foreign disk. Take a look at this and see if your symptoms are described and solved: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_disktrouble.mspx?mfr=true

If all else fails, a good ol' Linux boot disk may help out. Be careful with that though. The possibility exists that you could thrash the data unintentionally. Maybe clone the disk first if you can. Or use a good forensic Linux Distro like Helix ( http://www.e-fense.com/helix/ ). Then copy the files from the HD in question to another disk.

Let us know what happens.

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