Dynamic Drive Overlay

Dear All,
I have to recover data from an Hard Disk on which i have installed a
Dynamic Drive Overlay in order to use it on an older PC.
Now my new PC cannot read data from asserting that the drive is not
formatted. Someone kows how I can read may old data?
Many thanks,
Ale

wind news wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have to recover data from an Hard Disk on which i have installed a
> Dynamic Drive Overlay in order to use it on an older PC.
> Now my new PC cannot read data from asserting that the drive is not
> formatted. Someone kows how I can read may old data?

This is just speculation, but should be non-destructive at any rate.
Try inspecting the drive with a bootable drive utility, such as
Partition Magic. I'm sure there are better toolkits, but it might
permit you to see your partition and copy it to a new blank drive, free
of the DDO.

Also, if you really have to resort to undoing the DDO, it would probably
help to know what overlay you're using.

Grinder wrote:
> wind news wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I have to recover data from an Hard Disk on which i have installed a
>> Dynamic Drive Overlay in order to use it on an older PC.
>> Now my new PC cannot read data from asserting that the drive is not
>> formatted. Someone kows how I can read may old data?
>
> This is just speculation, but should be non-destructive at any rate. Try
> inspecting the drive with a bootable drive utility, such as Partition
> Magic. I'm sure there are better toolkits, but it might permit you to
> see your partition and copy it to a new blank drive, free of the DDO.
>
> Also, if you really have to resort to undoing the DDO, it would probably
> help to know what overlay you're using.

There is an example of what the DDO could be doing here. The claim here is, that the
partition table is moved from the normal location.

"removing OnTrack DDO"
http://groups.google.ca/group/muc.li...174c0901290229

Paul

Paul wrote:
> Grinder wrote:
>> wind news wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>> I have to recover data from an Hard Disk on which i have installed a
>>> Dynamic Drive Overlay in order to use it on an older PC.
>>> Now my new PC cannot read data from asserting that the drive is not
>>> formatted. Someone kows how I can read may old data?
>>
>> This is just speculation, but should be non-destructive at any rate.
>> Try inspecting the drive with a bootable drive utility, such as
>> Partition Magic. I'm sure there are better toolkits, but it might
>> permit you to see your partition and copy it to a new blank drive,
>> free of the DDO.
>>
>> Also, if you really have to resort to undoing the DDO, it would
>> probably help to know what overlay you're using.
>
> There is an example of what the DDO could be doing here. The claim here
> is, that the
> partition table is moved from the normal location.
>
> "removing OnTrack DDO"
> http://groups.google.ca/group/muc.li...174c0901290229

That may well point to a solution as well. If Linux can find the
partition table on a disk that has been overlaid with ontrack, perhaps
the OP can get at his data with a Linux boot cd--presuming, of course,
that his ddo is ontrack.