recovery Upgraded cpu and now hdd is set to dynamic disk

[bendella]

Upgraded my cpu from a 2600 to a 5600x. Msi B450 motherboard. I updated to current bios before swap. I have a 250gb m.2 for my os and it would only boot to bios. I unplugged all of my of my storage drives before boot to new cpu. Had to do a new install of windows. All sata drives show up fine but for some reason my 2tb hdd switched to dynamic disk. It was mostly used for mass offline game storage but I have some Photos i want to save. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard and i can see the folders I want to save but it wants me to pay to use the software for that function. What can I use instead to recover those files?

[jaybee83]

12 hours ago, bendella said:

Upgraded my cpu from a 2600 to a 5600x. Msi B450 motherboard. I updated to current bios before swap. I have a 250gb m.2 for my os and it would only boot to bios. I unplugged all of my of my storage drives before boot to new cpu. Had to do a new install of windows. All sata drives show up fine but for some reason my 2tb hdd switched to dynamic disk. It was mostly used for mass offline game storage but I have some Photos i want to save. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard and i can see the folders I want to save but it wants me to pay to use the software for that function. What can I use instead to recover those files?

 

found a post on a free alternative for your situation: https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/149391-there-way-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-without-data-loss-post1954052.html#post1954052

 

check and see if this might help you 🙂 

[bendella]

4 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

 

found a post on a free alternative for your situation: https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/149391-there-way-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-without-data-loss-post1954052.html#post1954052

 

check and see if this might help you 🙂 

That did work. Thanks a lot 🙂

[Reciever]

Its also possible that your motherboard's default option is different from what you had set when you first set up the system. 

 

For Dell (I know this isnt a dell system) as an example, Most people tend to set AHCI as a default SATA operation, but Dell's default option is Raid On, which would cause issues after a BIOS update on laptops for example.

 

 

[jaybee83]

8 hours ago, Reciever said:

Its also possible that your motherboard's default option is different from what you had set when you first set up the system. 

 

For Dell (I know this isnt a dell system) as an example, Most people tend to set AHCI as a default SATA operation, but Dell's default option is Raid On, which would cause issues after a BIOS update on laptops for example.

 

 

aha that might be a culprit indeed! ive never really thought about this but i remember seeing that option as default in bios.