Recovery from possible dynamic disk
Posted: 04 Aug 2012, 12:05
Hi
Firstly I'm sorry to come with a question before contributing anything to the board.
I have a hunch that I am trying to recover data from a dynamic disk but I am not sure.
Testdisk is able to find a PQSERVICE partition which I believe is the recovery partition for the Acer laptop from which the computer came from.
That is now fully readable but quite useless.
When I do a quick search via Testdisk it finds another 60GB partition but without a label and it cant access the files.
Writing this table gives me a drive letter in explorer but wants me to format it. In Disk Management it sees two 32GB partitions which, one with a drive letter and labeled RAW and the other as unallocated space. This is what makes me think that maybe it's a dynamic disk.
When I do a deeper search it does start to see another parition labeled ACER which gets me excited because of course this looks like where the data is.
But when it finishes I am not able to write this partition. I am hoping someone here would have some insight into what I should do next.
Thanks and again sorry for my first post being a question but I am quite desperatly needing to recover this data.
Firstly I'm sorry to come with a question before contributing anything to the board.
I have a hunch that I am trying to recover data from a dynamic disk but I am not sure.
Testdisk is able to find a PQSERVICE partition which I believe is the recovery partition for the Acer laptop from which the computer came from.
That is now fully readable but quite useless.
When I do a quick search via Testdisk it finds another 60GB partition but without a label and it cant access the files.
Writing this table gives me a drive letter in explorer but wants me to format it. In Disk Management it sees two 32GB partitions which, one with a drive letter and labeled RAW and the other as unallocated space. This is what makes me think that maybe it's a dynamic disk.
When I do a deeper search it does start to see another parition labeled ACER which gets me excited because of course this looks like where the data is.
But when it finishes I am not able to write this partition. I am hoping someone here would have some insight into what I should do next.
Thanks and again sorry for my first post being a question but I am quite desperatly needing to recover this data.