Any ideas on recovering data from a deleted NTFS partition on a W2k Pro Dynamic Disc? How about info (or pointers to) about the structure of dynamic discs? Especially info regarding how volumes are created/marked on a dynamic disc. Disc utilitiesspecifically for dynamic discs & W2k?
I was using W2k Pro’s Disk Management snap in when I deleted the partition. I’ve tried Part Cmdr, Part Magic, Easy Recover, Recovery Console, NTFSDOS. I found Q245725 & Q153973 which indicate an NTFS partition is recoverable by 1st recovering the backup boot sector (from the end or middle of the partition). All to no avail.
Of course I had no real backup (not even ERD) ’cause everything was proceeding just swimmingly & I kind of know what I’m doing & I’m careful & I had copies of everything on… the partition I deleted.
My setup:
partition 1 (HDD0, 2G Fat32, Boot, System)
partition 2 (HDD0, 8G NTFS)
partition 3 (HDD1, 2G NTFS)
** partition 4 (HDD1, 12G NTFS) ** deleted
Both HDDs were upgraded to Dynamic Disc.
I thought I’d have parition 1 & 3 for system & swapfile and partition 2 & 4 as (1) volume for data. Figured out I need unpartitioned drive space in order to expand a volume or partition. So, I deleted partition 4.oops!@#!@# damn!@@!@#$
I think I’m hosed but though I’d ask. Besides, it’s probably time to figure out what our recovery options are on dynamic discs. Thanks for your help.
