Dynamic Hardrive Problem

[cleidophoros]

Hi guys
got a problem with "dynamic" HD
i have an old pc. with a 40GB IDE HD (2 partitions) with win xp pro sp2 installed and another 250 GB IDE HD (samsung) (2 partitions) with all my stuff on.
i got a new pc today. i took 250 GB HDD off old pc and connected it to new pc (win xp pro sp2-amd 64 x2 - gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4 mobo). so now on new pc, i have 1 250 IDE HD on primary IDE channel as master also a 160 GB SATA II HD on SATA II 1 with OS installed.
turned pc on, it did see samsung hd, installed driver, asked me to reboot, i did. but when it came back i could not see 250GB HD anywhere. checked device manager and it was labeled as "Disc 0 Dynamic, Can Not Be Read"
turned pc off, took it out, connected to old pc, same thing happened again. it was labeled as dynamic disc. i can format it but i dont wanna lose files.
i tried to boot it with a linux build, it sees only 1 partition of 250GB HD (~135 GB) and it doesnot see SATA II 160 GB HD.
so, what can i do to see that HD and get my files? i dont wanna lose that 250GB...
thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Athlon2K15]

trying going in disk management and see if you can initialize the disc and see if windows gives it a drive letter

 

[cleidophoros]

i managed to get all my files off teh hdd.
here is how i did it in case anyone needs it.

i downloaded Knoppix 5.1.1 (Linux Live CD) http://www.knoppix.org/ burned to a cd. booted pc with it.
then opened a konsole and typed;

sudo -s
ln -s /usr/lib/libntfs.so.10.0.0 /usr/lib/libntfs.so.9
testdisk

and
ran testdisk. (typed that extra stuff before testdisk to override a bug.)
testdisk detected "dynamic" hdd, new sataII hdd and external hdd.
i chose dynamic one.
then gave me some options. i chose to "Analyse" disk. testdisk found 2 partitions on it. they were both labeled as "Deleted".
gave me teh choice to change their structure. i changed 135GB one to primary. i couldnot change second one (100GB) to primary, logical or extended. only option i had was to leave it as deleted. (actually i could change structure but program didnt let me go any further if i did because of teh "Structure Bad" thingy in red!
so i decided to salvage 1 now then come back to get teh other.
it fixed structure and told me to reboot. i did, and i could see my files. but couldnot copy/move em to external hdd or internal sataII hdd. so i took a wild guess, turned pc off and booted back to XP. XP did see that 1, 130GB partition. second partition was labeled ad unallocated. i decided not to touch it on XP.
i moved 135GB from first partition to external hdd on XP. booted back to knoppix, fixed other partition,(analysed and set it to Primary) rebooted. booted back to XP.
XP saw 100GB partition as Primary and 135GB partition as unallocated. then i moved 100GB of files to external HDD again
i am saved!
:woot:


and this is teh move/copy command prompt in Linux in case you need it.

#to copy:
# the -R at the beginning tells the copy program to "recursively" copy all files and folders.
cp -R /dir/to/source /dir/to/destination

#to move, simple change cp to mv. The -R is not necessary because it has no option but to move everything anyway.
mv /dir/to/source /dir/to/destination

 

[von kain]

cleidorore mallon katebase kalytera to knoppel einai elliniko kai idio me to knopix

 

[cleidophoros]

cleidorore mallon katebase kalytera to knoppel einai elliniko kai idio me to knopix

sorry man i dont understand you. i am not greek.

 

[von kain]

cleidoforos is a greek name mean key bearer and it is written in greek

sorry mate for the mix up

 

[cleidophoros]

yeah i know what it means. i am an archaeologist and i know a lil bit of ancient greek.
where i excavate there is teh house of cleidophoros, hence my name