hdd shown as dynamic and not formatted :(

[Yazizam]

I recently built my new pc with a sata hdd as my main hard with os(xp pro) on it. and I added my two old ata hdd. now one of them works just fine but the other one doesnt. it says that its a dynamic hdd but I cant access it or anything. it asks to be formatted.
now I have a whole lot of stuff on it that I just cant lose. (its a 200gb WD)
any suggestions? is there any way to copy or access stuff to on it without formatting it?

this 200gb hdd was wired to my old 80g as a slave which was connected to a controller card.
by the way, the old pc was built on an intel cpu with ati vga and the new one is built on an amd cpu with geforce card.

 

[garebo]

First thing i can think of would be to put the drive in another computer and see if i can get it working there, then take off the data you want and burn it to a cd or dvd or move it to a usb drive, something like that.

Do you have the drive as master or slave at this point?


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[ddmcp2000]

This a "Not Hardware Dependent Issue". You seem to be in trouble... Was your old system Win2K? If so, read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175761/

The only way I can think of to fix this issue would be plug the drive into a system that uses the SAME operating system as the drive used to be accessed by. I believe there is a right click option to "re-activate" or "import" disk, in both 2K and XP. This can be done (usually) perfectly safely. If you revert, though, as the article above says, you WILL LOSE EVRYTHING!!!

Here's another article explaining the process:

http://www.petri.co.il/difference_between_basic_and_dynamic_disks_in_windows_xp_2000_2003.htm

Also, try these links regarding re-importing your disk:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_whjq.asp