How to recover files from dynamic disk?

Did you encounter these following dynamic disk data loss disasters before? Deleted files from dynamic disk, formatted dynamic disk partition, deleted dynamic disk partitions before converting it to basic but forgot to backup the files. Some people don't know what dynamic disk is, even more, they don't know whether the disks they used are dynamic. So after purchasing a data recovery software, they may found the software is unable to achieve dynamic disk recovery. To recover files from dynamic disk, you need to purchase professional dynamic disk data recovery software. Among the best data recover software, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is unique. It is free and professional dynamic disk data recovery software.

In this article, I'll introduce dynamic disk shortly and tell you how to do dynamic disk recovery.

What is dynamic disk?

A Dynamic disk is a physical disk with features that basic disks do not have, such as support for volumes spanning multiple disks. Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer. Dynamic disk management is a data/hard disk management method on the Microsoft Windows platform, first introduced with Windows 2000 operating system. The basic concept was put to use on Unix platform years earlier.

Dynamic storage is supported in the Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 and the later Windows Operating Systems. A disk that has been initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. With dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without restarting the Windows.

How to do dynamic disk recovery?

As dynamic disk is more complex than basic disk, files of spanned volumes, striped volumes and RAID 5 volume will divided into several parts on different dynamic disks. To recover files from dynamic disk, it is much more difficult than from basic disk, so you'd better choose the professional dynamic disk recovery software, here I recommend EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

1. Download it, install and run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. After that, you'll find three data recovery modules, "Deleted File Recovery", "Complete Recovery" and "Partition Recovery".

2. If you just deleted files from the dynamic disk volume, Deleted File Recovery module is to recover deleted files. If you formatted the dynamic partition, or the file system shows as RAW, Complete Recovery module is the right choice. If you deleted the dynamic Simple Volume and want to recover files from it, Partition Recovery is right for you.

3. Following the step by step guide, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will list all found files, choose the files and save to another disk or partitions. You can also click "File Preview" to check whether the files are correct.

Notes: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can support recovering files from dynamic disks. If the dynamic disk volumes are lost, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition cannot recover the lost data except the dynamic volume is a Simple Volume.

 

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