Windows Disk Recovery after converting Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk

In this technologically-advanced organizational world, you might have come across a number of awful stories related to data loss and windows disk recovery. In majority of such situations, when there is loss of vital data happened due to hard drive issues or due to user’s misunderstanding. As soon as you realize that important data has gone missing or corrupt, stop doing activities on your computer as this might just leave you empty handed forever. As the time increases, the chances of windows disk recovery decreases. There are number of people using windows disk recovery software to retrieve data from corrupt files. But before you decide on the recovery way, it is important to know the issue that has made your file being inaccessible.

Many a times, the hard drive partitions are created in MS Windows using the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme. MBR records stores primary partition entries in the Partition Table. There may be “n” number of partitions on your hard drive, but MBR is able to store descriptors for only 4 primary partitions. The rest of windows partitions are termed as secondary partitions and their descriptors are stored in the linked list that starts from MBR. However, in some circumstances, due to many issues with this partitioning scheme, all of the hard drive partitions might become inaccessible and you might also come across situation leading to loss of partitions.

In order to solve this issue, one needs to perform windows disk recovery using an appropriate recovery solution. The dynamic disks in MS windows is compatible with only a few types of disk partition which includes OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) partition, type 0X42 partitions for dynamic disk and the extended partitions. Additionally, when MBR itself is damaged, then even the basic Windows disk might be displayed as a corrupt dynamic disk. This issue occurs usually in Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2000.

• The MBR might comprises of some invalid partition type because of utilization of incorrect hard drive partitioning tool. In such cases, if you make any try to convert your dynamic disk to a basic disk, the attempt will fail. With the use of Diskpart.exe, you can easily convert the disk, but after you rescan the disk, the hard drive will again look as Dynamic unreadable. However, it must be assured that all the data in the disk is backed up before you try to perform any disk conversion procedure. Disk conversion process comprises of steps, that remove data and therefore the backup is required. If you are left with a failed backup, you will need windows disk recovery tool.

• In case MBR or EBR is damaged or corrupt, and hexadecimal 0X42 values available in any of them, then the Operating system considers the partition as dynamic disk even if it isn’t dynamic.

To resolve this issue, you need to first make sure that this is the situation resulted due to invalid system identification. However, if this is not the issue, then the problem could also be a result of damaged data structure that requires windows disk recovery.