1
I built a new system that has a RAID 5 array and I wish to recover files that were stored on my previous computer's spanned dynamic disk system. That system is not bootable, so I cannot start it up and copy over a network. I was under the assumption that I could simply disconnect both drives from the old computer, hook them up via a USB dock (I have a dual "toaster" dock) and reactivate them so long as they were both present, but this seems to not be the case... at least, it's not working the way I'm attempting to do so.
When I go into disk management, I see both disks there, but they both say "Dynamic" and "Invalid".
The old computer and new are/were both Windows 8.1 Pro. Is there any way I can get these drives mounted?
Here is my Diskpart output:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 232 GB 0 B *
Disk 2 Online 7452 GB 0 B *
Disk 3 Online 1397 GB 1024 KB
Disk 4 Invalid 465 GB 0 B *
Disk 5 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 6 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 7 Invalid 465 GB 0 B *
1They were spanned using what technology? – Paul – 2014-06-26T00:09:14.043
Done in Disk Management, "create spanned volume" – Mirrana – 2014-06-26T00:10:05.623