Shponglejam

I bought and installed a hd as slave, pinned as cs and formated as Dynamic on an XP Pro Dell system

The Motherboard fried and dell sent me a new tower with Home ...

Home does not support Dynamic

I cannot get or or Microsoft or Dell to upgrade me to XP ...(OEM and warranty expiration issues) but i need to recover data and media on the drive.

I found this work around http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1806

It involves Editing the sectors on the drive with Dskprobe.exe .. a utility on Win 2000.

There are 2 options to recover the data ,as I see it.. Maby 3.

1. Pin the drive as cs or slave (Not sure which) plug into into a system that has win 2000 as OS on it and Pull my active master and connect that in the secondary channel (so I have somewhere to copy the data to).

2. Pin the drive as cs or slave (Not sure which) plug into into a system that has windows 2000 and run dskprobe.exe per this link HOWTO: Convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk without data loss

3. Find out if I can copy dskprobe and run from XP Home or Pro based System.

Anyone experienced at editing sectors????

Thanks!!

[Mystic]

I have no personally, I just thought i'd give some advice to be careful, as you might render the data on that disk as currupt.

I would suggest asking on www.experts-exchange.com