Dynamic Partition Recovery

Dynamic Partitioning is the preferred disk partitioning scheme now a day. This method contains the features that basic partitioning doesn't have. These features including support of volumes spanning, and multipartitioned volumes. In dynamic partitioning, you can resize the volume partitioning without formatting it.

Dynamic partitioning is a hard drive management system used on the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was first introduced with Windows 2000. There are five different types of dynamic disks such as: Simple volume, spanned volume, stripped volume, and mirrored volume and RAID 5 volume.

The LDM or Logical Disk Manager is the subsystem of Windows operating system that manages the dynamic disks. It uses the information stored in the LDM database that located on every partition of the dynamic disk. It is very reliable and easy to use method.

Though it is very reliable and most widely used partitioning method in windows, but sometimes it also can create problems. When your try to reinstall the operating system, you may get following error message:

"Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected.

Setup cannot install Windows XP on this partition. However, you can go back to the previous screen, delete the partition. And then select the resulting unpartitioned space.

Setup will then create a new partition on which you can install Windows XP"

This error message occurs because the windows operating system can't always install to the dynamic disk partition. Windows can be installed only the dynamic partition that is the system or boot partition of dynamic volume. This problem occurs only if the MBR entry of the partition is not present for the simple dynamic partition.

To fix this issue, you need to delete the existing primary partition. When you delete the partition, it will be reverted in the basic partition. In this process your windows operating system will generate the following warning:

The partition you attempted to delete is on a dynamic disk. Deletion of this partition will make all other partitions on this disk unusable.

But you have only one option that is partition deletion. Partition deletion is not safe as it will delete all the data stored on the partition and will lead to data loss. In this case, if the partition contains important information then you need to recover the lost data.