How to Recover Files from Dynamic Disk in Windows?

Basic disk and dynamic disk

Wiserecovery supports all hardware RAID and hard drive, camera card, SD card and Memory Cards, Memory stick etc.

The concept of basic disk and dynamic disk were introduced by Windows 2000 and were added to the Windows system as a tool of an administrator. A basic disk is different from a dynamic disk since they can be used in different operation systems. All versions of Windows and even DOS can support basic disk, while this is not the case for dynamic disk. It can merely be supported by Windows versions later than Window 2000, including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Windows 2007, Windows vista and Windows 2008.

You can use all of file systems on either basic or dynamic disk, including FAT and NTFS. And you can change a basic into a dynamic disk without a reboot of the system. One thing you must know that this is not a bi-directional process. Once you have transformed a basic disk into a dynamic disk, you cannot transform it back unless you re-create the volume.

About dynamic disk

Generally speaking, dynamic disks can offer more management flexibility without the partition limitation of basic disks storage. Dynamic disks can contain an unlimited number of volumes, but they cannot contain partitions or logical drives. The Dynamic Disk doesn't simply format its hard drives in partitions but allows the recordable information to be stored over several different disks instead.

Volumes in dynamic disks can span several physical disks, or be striped across multiple disks for better performance (in striping, parts of the same file are physically located on multiple physical disk drives). Volumes in dynamic disks can also be mirrored or set up as a RAID 5 array. Dynamic volumes can even be confined to a single disk.

Dynamic disk data recovery

Wiserecovery supports five types of dynamic volumes: Simple Volume, Mirrored Volume, Spanned Volume, Striped Volume, RAID 5 Volume.

Three modules will help you recover data according to your data situations. "Deleted File Recovery" is for recovering deleted data; "Partition Recovery" for recovering files from lost or damaged partition and "Complete Recovery" for recovering formatted data, data loss due to software crash, etc.

How to recover files from a dynamic disk?

Wiserecovery ery is a powerful data recovery software, which can recover data after the reinstallation of Windows if the data is not overwritten. Furthermore, it can also recover deleted files, recover files from formatted partition, recover files from raw partition, etc. You can follow the instructions to recover lost files with Wiserecovery after reinstalling operation system.

Wiserecovery Free Edition is a free and easy hard disk data recovery software. There are three recovery modules on the main window of the interface:

1. Download WiseRecovery y Data Recovery Software, install it and launch it. Click the "Start Scan" button on the main window of Data WiseRecovery.

2. You can see the list of all volumes found on your computer, select the exact drive and click the "Next" button to start scanning. If you can't see the drive, please make sure your external drives are connected, and click 'Refresh' button.

3. It will take about 2-10 minutes to scan, it depends on your disk size and files amount on the disk. After scanning is finished, you can preview text document and picture files.

Note: If you are not able to get the desired results after Deleted File Recovery, go back to home window and select the option "RAW Recovery" or "Partition Recovery ".

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