Recover Files from Unreadable Dynamic Disk

Dynamic disks are simply physical disks with dynamic volumes on them. Only Windows 2000 and later can recognize dynamic disks. Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer. Dynamic disk management is a data/hard disk management method on the Microsoft Windows platform, first introduced with Windows 2000 operating system. The basic concept was put to use on Unix platform years earlier. There are five types of Dynamic volumes: Simple Volume, Striped Volume, Spanned Volume, Mirrored Volume, RAID 5 Volume.

However, most of people don't know how to manage it. This is a special field that needs computer knowledge and skills. That's why people always meet dynamic disks' access problems which based on the following two reasons:

1. Virus affection - as basic disks, once some of the virus affected dynamic disks, the disks become unreadable. At this kind of situation, the solution is very simple, load the anti-virus software, kill it and fix dynamic disk problem, then you can access it again.

2. System reinstallation - this happens to nearly everyone when they reinstall Windows system. After the installation, they found that their non-system dynamic disks become unreadable. Some of them solved this problem after use the solution that gave by Microsoft, but some of them still stay in that trouble. They ask "how to fix unreadable dynamic disk?" on internet, the finally format the unreadable dynamic disk; they lost all data in it.

And the second reason is the most complicated, seldom people knows how to solve unreadable dynamic disks. There is no sure way for it. At this time, it seems that you have to reformat the partition and give up data in that unreadable dynamic disk. No, maybe you need to reformat the partition, however you can save the data.

In fact, data recovery software can recovery files from unreadable dynamic disk, even if the dynamic disk can not be accessed. Like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional, it can recover deleted, formatted, virus affected files from basic and dynamic disks. If you meet the problem, it can not fix it, but it can save your important data to minimum your loss. Do as the following steps, you will save your data from those unreadable dynamic disks. Please see here.

Note: We do advise you to backup your data by copying dynamic disk. You may refer to How to Copy Dynamic Volume? for more details to avoid data loss on dynamic disks.

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