Microsoft Windows Vista is the latest version of Windows operating system. It includes a number of added and advanced features and one such feature is support to Dynamic Disk volumes. Vista supports the Dynamic Disk volumes for its Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions. You can easily convert a basic disk to dynamic disk using Convert to Dynamic Disk option from the Disk Management.
However, when you convert a dynamic disk back to basic disk, it is not usual and requires hard drive formatting. Formatting removes all of your hard drive partitions and cause critical partition loss situations. In order to overcome this issue, you are required to opt for Partition Recovery solutions.
According to Microsoft Windows users, in some situations after converting the Windows Vista installed drive partition from basic to dynamic, the following problems are observed:
- The dynamic Disk volumes could not be deleted when you try to reinstall Microsoft Windows Vista. Delete command, which appears in Where you want to Install Windows dialog box if you reinstall Windows, isnt available.
- If you convert the dynamic disk to basic disk, all of the hard drive volumes are needed to be removed first and the dynamic volumes are converted to the basic volumes using Convert to Basic Disk command by Disk Management.
For sorting out such issues and perform Partition Recovery, you need to create backup and format entire volume. Use diskpart.exe command to remove the dynamic volume and repartition the hard drive.
In case if you do not have backup of your dynamic disk and you format the drive, in order to convert it to dynamic disk, the drive partitions and stored data may get lost. In such cases, you can not access your valuable data and thus it might harm your business. At this point, it becomes extremely significant to recover lost partitions and stored data to save your business. This is best possible using powerful third party tools, known as Partition Recovery Software.
These software are specifically designed to systematically scan damaged hard drive using most advanced scanning methods and retrieve all of the lost partitions and stored data from it. These applications might vary for you versions of Windows operating system. You should go for a Partition Recovery Software that supports recovery from Windows Vista.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive and effective tool to recover FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. It provides Boot DVD to recover data from unbootable Windows computer.
