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When you initialize a disk for dynamic storage, it is denoted as dynamic disk. Such disks might contain dynamic volumes like striped volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, simple volumes and RAID-5 volumes. But when you delete any of these volumes (except RAID-5 and dynamic mirrored volume) accidentally using Disk management snap-in, you can recover it and its data unless you haven’t formatted the acquired space. If you have formatted the disk to FAT32 or NTFS, Windows lets you to recover such deleted volumes by restoring backup boot sector. However, if you have formatted it after deleting the dynamic volume, you should opt to use Data Recovery applications.
NTFS and FAT32 volumes keep a backup copy of their boot sectors. When you delete a dynamic volume, Disk Management erases the volume’s primary boot sector, located at sector 0 of the volume. It then deletes the corresponding volume entry from its private region database, though the backup boot sector and the original data remains intact. Thus, you can restore the deleted boot sector from its backup and hence the deleted FAT32 or NTFS dynamic volume. Since FAT16 doesn’t maintain backup boot sector, you cannot recover the volume if deleted.
Before performing these steps, make sure that you haven’t created a new volume in its place. However, you need to follow these steps to recover the deleted dynamic volume:
You need to first recreate a volume of exactly same size as of deleted one. Ensure that you don’t format the volume. Use Dskprobe.exe that allows you to restore backup boot sector. In NTFS, it is located at the end of volume, whereas in FAT32 it is place at sector-6 of volume. Quit Dskprobe after it rewrites FAT32 or NTFS boot sector To mount the volume for use, you should click Rescan Disks on Action menu of Disk Management As discussed, the above measures of recovering deleted dynamic volume are applicable only when you haven’t formatted it. If you have recreated a new volume, restoring the backup boot sector will not help. To restore formatted volumes, you should use Data Recovery Software. These are commercial Data Recovery utilities that employ safe scanning algorithms to locate and restore missing information from logically crashed disks.
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