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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 07 November 2008, 20:26:39
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Somehow (my fault - was very tired at the time) I have managed to convert a partition by Spanning it. Never done anything like it before.
Gone in to the Management and tried to convert it back. No joy.
Any idea's how to convert it back and hopefully save the data on it, or have I lost it all.
Drive is brand new and has 4 partitions on it (100+400+400+leftover) and the partition I manged to Span was the 1st on :y :ye (Primary)
Any advice while I still have some hair left.
TIA.
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You have too much time on your hands ;) ;D
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It seems to have turned the header on the drive map (under management) to a purple colour. From what I can see it has added it to the 8mb free partion from the main hard drive.
Ah well, looks like data allready lost. :-/ :-/
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I'm afraid its irreversible :-/
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I'm afraid its irreversible :-/
I had come to that conclusion when I was writing the last post out.
No worries, nothing to major has been lost (I Hope :-/)
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I'm afraid its irreversible :-/
I had come to that conclusion when I was writing the last post out.
No worries, nothing to major has been lost (I Hope :-/)
Skruntie. Sit on your hands & stop playing with it :D
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Just assigned a new drive letter and found 36GB of data..... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
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Whilst your pi***ng about on your pc dont mistakenly convert it to dynamic drive that is fixable but a pain ! :(
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Whilst your pi***ng about on your pc dont mistakenly convert it to dynamic drive that is fixable but a pain ! :(
Had that happen a while bach, but it seems to have been a windows issue that caused it.
Formatted windows and it solved quite a few problems including some hard drive issues.
Flipping things. :-/
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Just assigned a new drive letter and found 36GB of data..... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
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As you have found out, if you span/mirror or anything else using the ftdisk.sys driver, windows (versions running ftdisk.sys) can still access data on it (other OS can't), so you can back it up, and then redo disks, then restore.
I would advise against using any of the ftdisk.sys functionality, as:
a) its slow
b) written by Veritas (now Symantec), and hence is shite.
Get a proper RAID card if thats what you want to do - even crappy motherboard raid is better.
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As you have found out, if you span/mirror or anything else using the ftdisk.sys driver, windows (versions running ftdisk.sys) can still access data on it (other OS can't), so you can back it up, and then redo disks, then restore.
I would advise against using any of the ftdisk.sys functionality, as:
a) its slow
b) written by Veritas (now Symantec), and hence is sh*te.
Get a proper RAID card if thats what you want to do - even crappy motherboard raid is better.
It happened purely by accident, and as I had never spanned a drive before I thought I had done something serious as it wasnt untill last night I actually realised it was spanned.
I dont need raid on this machine as it's only pictures and video clips that would be lost, so nothing major.
For once this was a retrivable mistake.
Raid I havent used it for years, the one time I did I had added a pair of hard drives and for some reason had to reinsytall windows, installed the raid drivers and coulnt access the extra 2 drives. So I think I put myself off using it. Maybe try again with it in the New Year. :y