Help!! Hard Drive is Dynamic (Invalid)

[kitkat]

Need Help! lol anyone know how to convert dynamic (invalid) disk to basic without losing my files??? I have a lot of downloaded anime in that hard drive (forgot the titles).  

[NeutralHatred]

Pretty sure it needs to be reformatted.

[sameer]

kitkat, do you have something like "Import foreign Disk" option on right clicking that invalid disk in left column of disk management.

[sfaxt]

yeah well according to MS it cannot 

https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc755238(v=ws.11).aspx

1. Back up all volumes on the disk you want to convert from dynamic to basic.

2. In Disk Management, right-click each volume on the dynamic disk you want to convert to a basic disk, and then click Delete Volume for each volume on the disk.

3. When all volumes on the disk have been deleted, right-click the disk, and then click Convert to Basic Disk.

anyway theres this that claims that can do it without data loss 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/repair-invalid-dynamic-disk-without-data-loss.html

its quite reputable but to my experience those claims aren't always true due to OS limitations. idk about this case in particular.

 

but as a last solution if you cant reclaim your data keep it in mind

 

as a first try id check with a linux live cd or installation or something to see if you can get your data before doing anything

Edited February 6, 2018 by sfaxt

[DJHulp]

AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager (DDM):

https://www.disk-partition.com/AOMEI-ddm.html

[thedoctor2014]

I've never heard of this problem, but always good to learn about it before it happens. Hope you got your files safely recovered.