Dynamic disk offline - como recuperar?

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Viva,
procurei pelo google e pelos vossos fóruns mas não encontrei resposta ao meu problema.

Recentemente comprei um disco IDE de 200GB o qual, inocentemente, formatei como dynamic disk. Não fazia ideia da diferença até hoje. Hoje chego aqui ao PC e não aparece o disco, nem o consigo trazer de volta com as ferramentas administrativas. Diz que há um erro, que parece ser "sector danificado".

Como é que posso reactivar o disco?
Há alguma forma de o passar para basic sem perder os dados? Encontrei este site que diz que sim ( http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1806), mas será que funciona com o disco offline?

Por favor ajudem-me, tenho lá muita coisa importante.

EDIT:

encontrei isto

My 200Gb slave disk, when moved to another PC came up as Dynamic Disk unreadable, and I didn't want to convert it to basic, as windows warns all data will be lost.
DiskPatch (Dos Application) will rebuild the partitioning information and disk will come back online as basic. All data intact!!!
Warning: For disks >137GB, make sure WinXP SP2 is installed or it won't be able to address some files and chkdsk will delete orphaned files. No data will be lost, it's just the pointers to the addresses. Simply install back in a WinXP SP2 machine and run chkdsk again to rebuild pointers.

http://forums.getdata.com/showpost.php?p=6877&postcount=12

Que acham?

EDIT 2:

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13&sid=19f39dbf8c0d4827dfed7584a32f7aeb

DiskPatch is NOT a dynamic to basic disk converter. Even though the process of recovering lost volumes on a dynamic disk may result in the disk becoming a basic disk, DiskPatch was never designed as a dynamic-to-basic disk converter.

BUT, yes, it is possible under certain circumstances to convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk:

If the disk was 'basic' at the time it was partitioned there's a good chance that simply rebuilding the partition tables (using DiskPatch) on a 'dynamic' disk will turn the disk into a 'basic' disk once again. Obviously, the disk has to contain only 'simple volumes': if spanning (or any other Windows based scheme that uses more than 1 disk to house volumes) was used, it is NOT possible to convert such a disk back to a 'basic' disk.

If you decide to give this a try we suggest the following procedure:
(read the DiskPatch manual for details on the specific tasks)

1. create a backup of the partition structures
2. rebuild the partition tables
3. test the result. make sure nothing on the disk is changed (no chkdsk, defrag etc.)
4. if the results are good: start using the disk as a basic disk. if the results are bad: restore the backup you made earlier

Again, DiskPatch was not specifically designed to convert dynamic disks to basic disks; you try this at your own risk.

More information can be found in the DiskPatch manual:
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/dp_manual/dynamicdiskrepair.htm.

EDIT 3:

acabei por formatar.. fica sem efeito. gracias