Merged two HDD's

[viktorhanu]

Hi there,

I have three HDD's, each one is 160Gb, so what I've done is that I left one HDD for the OS files and some programs, and the other two I merged them to get one single partition bigger,instead of two separate. The problem is my PC is old and my motherboard got burned I think. I bought today a USB to SATA/IDE adapter and trying to acces them with my laptop. The HDD which contains OS files is completely working just fine, but on the other two I get some sort of error when I am looking in dev mgr saying that is dynamic disk and can't do nothing about that. I searched earlier some sort of fixing softwares,but none of them seemed to work. I know you might say the HDD's are damaged, but they were working just fine until my PC died. I have some important data on those two drives, if anyone knows what can I do, please help me. I'm out of ideas. Thank you.

 

[ss202sl]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/move-disks-to-another-computer

 

[getochkn]

Ya only option really is to try to hook them up to another PC and see if it can rebuild it. Storing important things on this type of setup is always a bad idea. The data can be spread across both drives in a variety of different ways, so you need both drives running at once in the same config to even try to get it back.

 

[asoroka]

How did you 'merge' them into one disk.

You will need to recreate the same conditions, ie have both connected so that they can be treated as one. The disks need to be both present and available to the OS at the same time as they are paired.

I suggest that you buy a big external drive and clone your physical disks with something like 'clonezilla'. You can then try mounting them in a virtual machine to get your data back.

That way you can experiment without destroying your data on the hdd.

If the data on the disks is critical then you might consider professional help.

 

[viktorhanu]

Ya only option really is to try to hook them up to another PC and see if it can rebuild it. Storing important things on this type of setup is always a bad idea. The data can be spread across both drives in a variety of different ways, so you need both drives running at once in the same config to even try to get it back.

Well I tried to run them both in the same time with the adapter. But only one can run at a time, I dunno why

 

[USAFRet]

Ya only option really is to try to hook them up to another PC and see if it can rebuild it. Storing important things on this type of setup is always a bad idea. The data can be spread across both drives in a variety of different ways, so you need both drives running at once in the same config to even try to get it back.

Well I tried to run them both in the same time with the adapter. But only one can run at a time, I dunno why

What adapter?
SATA only works with one drive at a time.

 

[viktorhanu]

Ya only option really is to try to hook them up to another PC and see if it can rebuild it. Storing important things on this type of setup is always a bad idea. The data can be spread across both drives in a variety of different ways, so you need both drives running at once in the same config to even try to get it back.

Well I tried to run them both in the same time with the adapter. But only one can run at a time, I dunno why

What adapter?
SATA only works with one drive at a time.

Well I bought an adapter usb to sata/ide. One hdd is sata one ide 40 pins. I tried to connect them both in the same time to my laptop. Only the sata was working, the ide will work only if i remove the sata..

 

[USAFRet]

Well I bought an adapter usb to sata/ide. One hdd is sata one ide 40 pins. I tried to connect them both in the same time to my laptop. Only the sata was working, the ide will work only if i remove the sata..

Then yes, it only works with one drive at a time.
I have a similar cable.

 

[viktorhanu]

Another thing is that the OS HDD is readable and I can acces all the data on it, and then I thought to try to boot my laptop from it, but it kept going to BSOD. And makes me think about something, I ordered a new MOBO and new CPU. The thing is my laptop is runing on Windows 10 and the OS on that HDD is Windows 7,does this affect somehow and is that the reason I get BSOD, or it may be the Win 7 which may be corrupted? If its corrupted, when my MOBO arrives, and I reinstall the Win 7, will the other two HDD's still be merged?

 

[USAFRet]

Another thing is that the OS HDD is readable and I can acces all the data on it, and then I thought to try to boot my laptop from it, but it kept going to BSOD. And makes me think about something, I ordered a new MOBO and new CPU. The thing is my laptop is runing on Windows 10 and the OS on that HDD is Windows 7,does this affect somehow and is that the reason I get BSOD, or it may be the Win 7 which may be corrupted? If its corrupted, when my MOBO arrives, and I reinstall the Win 7, will the other two HDD's still be merged?

You can't simply put a drive from a different system into a laptop and hope it boots up.
As you've seen...it won't. It's not a matter of Win 7 and/or Win 10.

All this merging and moving stuff around....the more you mess with it, the more likely you are to lose everything.

 

[viktorhanu]

All I'm trying now is to get some of my data out of those two HDDs, any chance to get them working together again on the new mobo as they were on the old one?

 

[USAFRet]

All I'm trying now is to get some of my data out of those two HDDs, any chance to get them working together again on the new mobo as they were on the old one?

This depends...how did you "merge" them?

 

[viktorhanu]

First I deleted the volumes from disk management, and then I created a new spanned volume, thats how I combined them

 

[USAFRet]

First I deleted the volumes from disk management, and then I created a new spanned volume, thats how I combined them

Both drives connected to the same motherboard, and not with that cable you have...Windows might pick up that spanned volume.
Or maybe not.

But you can't easily do it from your laptop.

 

[viktorhanu]

I will try to connect them both to the new MOBO as soon as it arrives. I will leave a reply after that to let you know if it worked or not. Thanks everyone for your quick answers.