Wednesday 20 June 2018

windows - Non destructively Convert offline dynamic disk to basic disk using testdisk tool

I had a 250GB hard disk having several NTFS partitions. The disk was a dynamic disk (created in windows).


Now when I formatted windows (which was in another disk), the dynamic disk is shown as offline.


I tried using the testdisk tool to recover the data and created a partial backup.


Testdisk is able to list all partitions in the disk. All partitions are shown as type 'D' (Deleted). I want to change the 'D' to 'P' (Primary), 'L'(Logical), 'E' (Extended) appropriately and build a new partition table. If I can write the partition table to disk, the disk will be of 'basic' type and should be readable in all OS.


testdisk screen shot of the recovered partition table What should be the appropriate partition types? I checked the files on the partitions and no OS was ound. So none of the partitions were bootable.


Will randomly selecting P,L,E hurt the data in anyway?


Edit


Can anyone suggest how to choose the partition types to P,L,E given that none of the partitions were bootable.

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