HELP - Drive Data Recovery

Former Member

I have a Seagate 120 GB Hard Drive in a removable caddy, the other day I went to take a big file off of the PC downstairs and when I put the HD back in my main PC it kept saying it's a Dynamic Drive and not Basic and couldn't mount it.

I tried everything and in the end only choice was to convert it to a basic disk which shows it's unformatted, but using a program called file Scavenger I can access the drive and see all my files in tact.

But the demo version only allows you to recover files smalelr then 64kb - anyone know of a freeware program that works with drives in NTFS format?

Former Member

I use a CD called SuperERD. It boots up using XP and allows access to NTFS drives. Not sure where the guy who gave it to me got it from but maybe someone else will know.

Failing that I could e-mail you the 650Mb nero image

Former Member

Try this set the disk in question up as a slave and recover what you need.

I would recommnd creating an image of your disk so you dont have to access your slave drive directly so you lower the chance of damaging files

I use System Mechanic and use it's Seach & Recover feature to create a disk image.

You can get a fully working 30 day trial here

Former Member

Thanks guys managed to get it sorted after many, many hours of moving stuff back and forth, didn't lose too much data in the end, now all my disk are set as Basic disks not dynamic so hopefully will work better

Former Member

It's too late for me to say now, but I was going to point you to a program called Ontrack. The demo lets you restore 6 files of any size as opposed to the 64kb limit on other demo programs. It saved my ass after I managed to wipe out my university coursework in a virus attack.