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by wkearney99
Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:43 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Recover NTFS dynamic partition?
Replies: 6
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Re: Recover NTFS dynamic partition?

The trouble is dynamic discs don't use just the MFT. They also use an LDM database stored elsewhere on the drive. Which I've yet to find tools that assist editing it. It's the LDM that tells Windows how to treat the partitions. So it would appear that any changes to the MFT wouldn't help. Mainly bec...
by wkearney99
Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:54 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Recover NTFS dynamic partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 22247

Re: Recover NTFS dynamic partition?

The curious thing is several of the UBCD utilities see the partition on the disc and show it as having the same type (42) as the others. But while the others come up as visible on a Windows box, the one I'm interested in does not. So, where else is Windows looking to find whether or not to present a...
by wkearney99
Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:33 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Recover NTFS dynamic partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 22247

Recover NTFS dynamic partition?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, and point me to the right place if you please, but does anyone know of tools that would allow recovering an NTFS partition on a dynamic drive? I've got a drive with a partition that was incorrectly deleted (removed as part of a mirror). The data is still on t...