How do I recover files from dynamic-disk in Windows?

What are the dynamic disks?

Dynamic disks are a central part of Windows storage management on the Server and XP Professional platforms. The feature makes the storage device more efficiency, but although makes them difficult for conventional disk image software to handle.

Simply speaking, dynamic disks offer more management flexibility without the partition limitation of conventional (or "basic" in Microsoft-speak) storage. Dynamic disks can contain an unlimited number of volumes, but they cannot contain partitions or logical drives.

Volumes in dynamic disks can span several physical disks (spanned disks), or be striped across multiple disks for better performance (in striping, parts of the same file are physically located on multiple physical disk drives). Volumes in dynamic disks can also be mirrored or set up as a RAID 5 array. Dynamic volumes can even be confined to a single disk.

Since you can perform disk and volume operations on dynamic disks without restarting Windows, dynamic storage gives storage administrators a lot of options to deal with the rising flood of data. However, because dynamic disk volumes are usually virtual volumes rather than contiguous chunks of space on a single disk, they pose special problems for backup and especially for disk imaging software.

Dynamic storage is a good-news/bad-news proposition. While dynamic disks offer new powerful tools, they also have some serious limitations that aren't present with conventional disks. Many of these limits are related to backup and restoration.

Dynamic storage can scatter pieces of files across several disks, which means that many conventional disk imaging tools that read blocks off the disk sequentially won't capture a usable image.

The Data Recovery Wizard Professional supports five types of dynamic volumes: Simple Volume, Striped Volume, Spanned Volume, Mirrored Volume, RAID 5 Volume.

To recover files from the dynamic disk volumes, follow these steps:

1. Download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional, install it and launch it. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main interface of Data Recovery Wizard Professional.

Note: If the dynamic disk volumes have been lost, Data Recovery Wizard professional cannot recover the lost data except the Simple Volume.

2. Select the file types you want to recover.

3. You can see the list of all basic disk partitions and dynamic disks volumes found on your computer.

4. Choose one of them and press the "NEXT" button.

5. This step will launch the Intelligent Searching interface to search the file system which has been used in this volume.

6. After this scanning is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.

Caution: Saving file(s) to the partition or drive from where you are recovering data, for it may result in overwriting of data, and would result in permanent data loss!

The trial version of Data Recovery Wizard Professional gives you a much fairer idea about chances of data recovery from your hard disk before deciding upon the purchase. You can buy full version to recover data! How to continue trial version's recovery without rescanning by full version?