And I forgot to mention, that this is the method to recover data if you have a dynamic disk that gets a corrupted partition database and becomes unusable.

I have a 120GB IDE disk with a dynamic partition on it that I want to access through a Firewire interface (I have the external enclosure for this, etc.) However, it appears that, as Microsoft ...

The most obvious difference between basic and dynamic disks lies in operating system support. While all versions of Windows--even DOS--support basic disks, we can't say the same for dynamic disks.