Cant use my internal drive in external (USB)
June 20th, 2018, 12:18
Hello,
I had got a problem recently with my main computer and I can't turn it on for the moment.
In order to be able to get back some data, that are really important to me, i bought an adaptator to use my HDD as an external drive, connected in USB to my laptop
(By the way, if that does matter : my HDD is a Seagate 2To 7200/min, that i use as a second disk on my main computer, for data storage mainly, while the OS is on a SSD.)
The thing is that even if windows does recognize the hard drive (see pic below), it doesn't appear as a hard drive.
I can see it in the disk management though : disk 1 on the pic, and windows tells me that it is dynamic.
I can see it through diskpart aswell, and here it says that the disk is invalid and that there is no volume on it
I already tried to see if I could access to the HDD with a linux live cd, the answer is no.
So I wanted to convert the disk from dynamic to basic, because I read that this is possible without losing any data.
I tried the AOMEI programs but it doesn't work (& I'm not sure about what it says to me about the possible data loss)
either i get this with the Dynamic Disk Manager :
either i get this with the Dynamic Disk Converter (can't proceed) :
I wanted to try the dskprobe method aswell (see : https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=726327 )
but I don't have a "42" at the mentionned line (see pic), so I prefered to not touch anything
[img]blob:https://imgur.com/eb095b76-669a-4e96-a634-e70392c091ca[/img]
I'm really stuck and really annoyed with this.
Could somebody help me pls ?
I had got a problem recently with my main computer and I can't turn it on for the moment.
In order to be able to get back some data, that are really important to me, i bought an adaptator to use my HDD as an external drive, connected in USB to my laptop
(By the way, if that does matter : my HDD is a Seagate 2To 7200/min, that i use as a second disk on my main computer, for data storage mainly, while the OS is on a SSD.)
The thing is that even if windows does recognize the hard drive (see pic below), it doesn't appear as a hard drive.
I can see it in the disk management though : disk 1 on the pic, and windows tells me that it is dynamic.
I can see it through diskpart aswell, and here it says that the disk is invalid and that there is no volume on it
I already tried to see if I could access to the HDD with a linux live cd, the answer is no.
So I wanted to convert the disk from dynamic to basic, because I read that this is possible without losing any data.
I tried the AOMEI programs but it doesn't work (& I'm not sure about what it says to me about the possible data loss)
either i get this with the Dynamic Disk Manager :
either i get this with the Dynamic Disk Converter (can't proceed) :
I wanted to try the dskprobe method aswell (see : https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=726327 )
but I don't have a "42" at the mentionned line (see pic), so I prefered to not touch anything
[img]blob:https://imgur.com/eb095b76-669a-4e96-a634-e70392c091ca[/img]
I'm really stuck and really annoyed with this.
Could somebody help me pls ?
Re: Cant use my internal drive in external (USB)
June 20th, 2018, 14:26
It seems your disk was not just a second drive letter in the other computer.
Consider all the advice already given by Spildit. It would probably be easier for you to expedite the fixing of the original computer, (without formatting/reinstalling OS in it ) then connecting your hard disk again to it.
Other than that, there is the risk if you format the SSD of the other computer, you may also lose the data in this, or at least make recovery of it more difficult ( and costly ).
Consider all the advice already given by Spildit. It would probably be easier for you to expedite the fixing of the original computer, (without formatting/reinstalling OS in it ) then connecting your hard disk again to it.
Other than that, there is the risk if you format the SSD of the other computer, you may also lose the data in this, or at least make recovery of it more difficult ( and costly ).
Re: Cant use my internal drive in external (USB)
June 20th, 2018, 16:28
Can you show us the Partitions window in DMDE?
https://dmde.com/
Can you also show us the contents of sector 0? Let me know if you need help with this.
https://dmde.com/
Can you also show us the contents of sector 0? Let me know if you need help with this.
Re: Cant use my internal drive in external (USB)
June 21st, 2018, 0:04
Hi guys, thank you for your help.
@ Spildit & rogfanther : thanks for the explanations about the spanned volume, I had no idea about that. I'll play it safe I guess.
@ fzabkar : I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but here it is :
@ Spildit & rogfanther : thanks for the explanations about the spanned volume, I had no idea about that. I'll play it safe I guess.
@ fzabkar : I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but here it is :
Re: Cant use my internal drive in external (USB)
June 21st, 2018, 16:09
The DMDE screenshot appears to be showing remnants of an earlier installation.
Obviously the data are in the "LDM data partition". The "LDM metadata partition" would contain information about all the drives that make up the dynamic volume. I have no experience with dynamic volumes, so I cannot suggest anything other than to attempt to reconstruct the file system with an NTFS search.
Obviously the data are in the "LDM data partition". The "LDM metadata partition" would contain information about all the drives that make up the dynamic volume. I have no experience with dynamic volumes, so I cannot suggest anything other than to attempt to reconstruct the file system with an NTFS search.
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