Help: W2K Dynamic disk problem - no music

Subject: W2K Dynamic disk problem - no music
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Sep 01 - 02:26 PM

I wonder if any of you NT or W2K buffs out there can help me. I added a 40GB disk to my system and wanted to transfer the data from my existing 9GB onto the new one. Tried various means with no sucess and then noticed W2K supports mirroring and dynamic virtual disk extension.

Give it a whirl, thinks I, so I removed my existing Linux partition (1GB of the original 9) to try and extend onto that prior to mirroring the W2K data. Went into disk management. Clicked the disk. Asked it to upgrade to dynamic disk. All went well until reboot. On trying to boot I could not find a boot sector. Tried W2K emergency repair - that couldn't find it either.

I have now re-installed W2K on my new disk and when I try to acces the old 8GB W2K partition it says it is a dynamic disk but inaccessable. If I boot using a linux disk it thinks it is linux swap space! I am going to give partition magic a go next week but thought I would ask here first as, between all us mudcatters, we must know EVERYTHING!

Nothing of any real value on the disk but my daughter wouldn't mind some of her picture and sound collection back. Anyone know if there is any way I can recover the data and win some major brownie points? ;-)

Cheers

DtG

PS - No I didn't have a back-up - I'm an HP High Availability / Mission Critical consultant. What would I know about back-up!?!?!?!?!

Subject: RE: Help: W2K Dynamic disk problem - no music
From: 8_Pints
Date: 01 Sep 01 - 05:00 PM

Hi Dave,

I can ask at work for you and report back, though I must admit that "big business" wouldn't advocate a migration to new Operating Systems, etc without years of trials first! (We're still using Win'98 & Win'NT v 4)

Like you I an an IT Consultant, but my speciality is in IC Cards, embedded systems and formal specifications.

Strikes me that there could be an element of "The cobbler's children are the poorest shod" here!

Bob vG

Subject: RE: Help: W2K Dynamic disk problem - no music
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Sep 01 - 05:51 PM

Spot on, Bob - though I only migrated to W2K because my collegues in the NT business reckoned it was best for home internet connection sharing - just shows what they know:-)

I think you are round my neck of the woods (Manchester) arn't you? Come to our club one night. We usualy have a computer talk around before the show starts - just shows what a bunch of geeks we are!

Dave

Subject: RE: Help: W2K Dynamic disk problem - no music
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 06:47 AM

If anyone is interested I have sorted the problem - cost me 80 dollars but worth it for the lack of aggrivation!

Bought a recovery tool called R-Studio which re-built the data with no hassle at all - all is well with the world.

Until the next Micros&*t hiccup....

Cheers

DtG

BTW - I have tried the same procedure for upgrading to dynamic disk subsequently to see if I could re-create the problem and I couldn't - all the rest went well. I can only assume some sort of incompatibility between Linix and W2K caused it.