Invalid Dynamic Disk

Zeriya · September 7, 2016

Let me start from the beginning.

I have two HDD in my desktop. The C: drive is 1TB and my other drive is 3 TB (G:). Windows in on my C: drive. However, I decided one day to Dual-boot Ubuntu and install it on my Second harddrive, giving it it's own partition of 900GB. (C: is basic, G: is dynamic) So everything went well. It installed properly and GRUB booted every time I powered on my machine. Eventually I decided that I don't really use Ubuntu that much anymore, so I wanted to get rid of it and use that partition to make a new volume in windows. I don't think I did that whole process well. I formatted the partition and eventually made that whole partition unusable. There was no way that Windows wanted to detect it. I had to download Partition wizard, but then that was telling me that the disk was bad. So I tried and looked everywhere to get that partition back. I still had 1.3 TB of the other 2TB left as a volume in windows so I counted my losses and moved on.

Present day, that missing 900GB still haunts me, so I decide to try and install ubuntu again on that partition. It did, but now GRUB doesn't work. So I downloaded Boot-Repair thru the terminal and ran it, but it didn't work because that disk isn't in UFEI. So I booted it off a Live-usb and tried it. Still didn't work because Secure boot was enabled, so I disabled it in the BIOS. Tried again, still didn't work. So, I'm really frustrated at this point, not thinking 100% staright, I decide to reinstall Ubuntu and format the partition again. This time, I paid attention to the window that popped up when I was assigning a partition to ubuntu that said that I needed to allocate 1 MB to the Boot manager or something like that. At this point I was mad, and impatient. Something I shouldn't have ever been when messing with partitions. So I assigned a partition that happened to be 1mb. In my head, I thought it was the previous GRUB partition from before. So I didn't think much of it. Eventually once everything installed and I rebooted, still no GRUB. This time, the machine beeped non-stop. The disk was bad. I went into the BIOS and rearranged the boot up list. Eventually windows loaded up. However, I noticed that my G: drive was missing. I open Disk management and I see "DIsk 1: Invalid" so in my head an I have so much regret of what I did while installing Ubuntu. Now I'm trying to find a way to recover this invalid disk.

I've found videos on youtube but I'm not feeling them 100%, at least I don't want to try anything without backing up the disk. So I need help finding out how to properly backup the disk, and recover it so I can use it again. (I don't care what happens to the linux partition, I just want my volume back with all my stuff.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, A lot of the solutions I came across were mostly people converting their dynamic invalid disks to Basic. Will this work even though I have multiple partitions? I'm mostly worried about my data on the G: Volume Partition.

TL;DR:

I messed up my dynamic harddrive(windows is not on it); it's invalid. I need to backup and recover it

Edited September 7, 2016 by Zeriya
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