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Windows Partition Recovery After Conversing a Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk

When the hard drive partitions are created in Microsoft Windows using the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, the MBR records stores primary partition entries in the Partition Table. No matter how many partitions are there on hard drive, MBR can store descriptors for only 4 primary partitions. All other Windows partitions are known as secondary partitions and their descriptors are stored in the linked list that starts from MBR. But in some situations, due to some issues with this partitioning scheme, all of the hard drive partitions may become inaccessible and you come across partition loss situations.

In order to resolve this problem, you are required to carry out Partition Recovery using appropriate recovery solutions. The Dynamic disks in Microsoft Windows support only few numbers of disk partition types that include OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) partition, type 0×42 partitions for dynamic disk and the extended partitions. Also, when MBR itself is damaged, even the basic Windows disk might be reported as a corrupt dynamic disk. This problem generally occurs in Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2000.

• The MBR might contain some invalid partition type due to use of wrong hard drive partitioning tool. In these cases, any attempt to convert your dynamic disk to a basic disk fails. With the help of Diskpart.exe, you can successfully convert the disk, but after you rescan it, hard drive again appears as Dynamic unreadable. Although, this is to be ensured that all of the data is backed up before you actually follow any disk conversion process. The procedure includes steps, which remove data and thus the backup is always required. A failed backup will need Partition Recovery.

• When the MBR or EBR gets damaged, if hexadecimal 0×42 values available in any of them, the operating system consider it as the dynamic disk even if the disk was not dynamic.

To sort out this problem, you are required to first confirm if this is the case of invalid system identification of system. If this is not the issue, then the problem could be due to damaged data structure that needs Partition Recovery Software to be fixed. These applications are built to scan the affected hard drive and retrieve lost, missing and inaccessible hard drive partitions. The Partition Recovery Software are completely safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to effectively handle most of the partition loss situations. This application is designed to recover FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partition. It supports recovery from Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

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