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Dynamic Disks in Vista
masterswipe mastersw...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices i jsut read a thread by "janteby" where he has vista ultimate 64, but it doesnt read dynamic disks? if i upgrade to ultimate will it actually work? cheers "Jane C" wrote: Hi masterswipe, Which Edition of Vista do you

Vista and Software-RAID (mirroring)
I would like to use the second HD for Vista, however, Vista does not like dynamic disk. I got XP HD and this new HD in internal mobile rack. One thing it means is that you don't have XP Home, which doesn't support Dynamic disks. Dynamic disks can have volumes that span multiple disks.

Are These Statements True?
Under disk management, it shows as a dynamic disk, to get Vista to see it , its requiring me to covert it into a basic disk and lose all my data, is there anyway of doing this Many thanks This might work http://thelazyadmin. com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2007/01/17/Converting-Dynamic-Disks-Back-to-Basic-Disks. aspx.

Dynamic Volume Striped Drive missing after clean install
Dave B. m...@nomail.net microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Ok. If you look at this brief article describing basic and dynamic disks, it says it applies From the limited info I could find on the subject it looked like all versions of Vista support dynamic disks. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost

Spanned disks in Vista Premium....How come they won't work?
Peter Pe...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices "Squibbly" wrote: i know that you can convert the basic disks of the hard drive to dynamic to access mirror and striping raid type backup systems, but will i be able to convert back to ntfs if i decided not to have it,

Dynamic Volume Striped Drive missing after clean install
Alexander Suhovey asuho...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Ken, I'm not sure I fully understand your situation and the thing that confuses me most is this: Dynamic disks is basically software RAID technology so why move to software RAID if you have hardware RAID already?.. And if you already have

Dynamic Disks Windows XP and Windows Vista
Juergen Kluth JKl...@t-online.de microsoft public windows 64bit general Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS 2TB only if on dynamic volumes regards jk.

Deleted partition with disk management, can't get it back!
Good pick up Ned "Ned Buckmaster" wrote: After further research, I found that Home Basic and Home Premium do NOT handle dynamic disks. Just for grins, I ran Vista Upgrade Advisor on the XP side of this computer. It suggested Home Premium was the right choice for me, and gave me no warning about the dynamic disk.

dynamic disks created in XP
Anton Altaparmakov ai...@cam.ac.uk fa linux kernel Hi Linus, I am a muppet it would seem. The patch on disk and the one in the email I sent have a one line difference which breaks compilation as I just found out when I pulled your tree and git showed up the mismatch... I can only assume that that was caused by

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
Michal Kawecki kkwi...@o2.pl microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices "Peter" <Pe...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:20661202-F0D2-4651-91FA-AC5D829CDBA6@microsoft.com... "Squibbly" wrote: i know that you can convert the basic disks of the hard drive to dynamic to access mirror and striping

Are These Statements True?
cvp c...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general All in all, it's a bad deal! You'd not only lose the benefits of the RAID-0 Can I convert both drives to dynamic disks and then combine them (so that I get one 465 GB dynamic drive) without disrupting the performance gains from the RAID 0

Vista won't recognize HDD
I know in windows xp you can only have a dynamic drive in the pro verson so i didnt know if i would be able to do this with vista home premium.In the disk manaagement snap-in on the MMC i right click the drive (not the volume) and there is no option to convert the drive to a dynamic drive.

Vista won't recognize HDD
Carey Frisch [MVP] cnfri...@nospamgmail.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices There is absolutely no benefit to having dynamic disks unless you install a RAID configuration and mirror two identical hard drives. You'll need to delete all volumes on the dynamic disk and then create a new basic partition

Spanned Volume on two dynamic disks XP->Vista
mark p ma...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi all I am using Windows Vista home premium I would like to convert my c:\to a dynamic disk is this possible on this version of Vista or does it need to be business or ultimate? I know with Windows XP it had to be the

Dynamique disk with my notebook
Kerry Brown ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m microsoft public windows vista general Just about every KB article that mentions dynamic disks and Vista points out that Home versions don't support dynamic disks. I don't know why you are seeing the option. It may be because there is some limited support for dynamic disks

How does one go about mirroring (RAID-1)...[long but more ...
I tried to convert a basic disk to dynamic disk in vista premium, and was given an error message telling me that dynamic disks are not supported in windows vista. [...] So, did I get screwed? Is there any solution other then buying ultimate for $400 or switching to opensource software?

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
janteby janteby.343...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Hello, I have a machine that had XP Pro where I had 1 Drive with my OS & then 2 additional where in Windows I set them up as a RAID 0 Dynamic Volume. I now formatted that OS Drive & installed Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
h_rajabba...@hotmail.com h_rajabba...@hotmail.com@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp security_admin you can not convert a basic disk that is dual boot if you want convert basic to dynamic you shold have one operating system "Alex" wrote: Hello., I have one PC with two Disks and I install XP on

PDH Library Perfmon - Dynamic Volumes - Vista
I start the same process install XP on Disk 0 and Vista Business on Disk 1, then convert Disk 0 to Dynamic Disk using XP, then convert Disk 1 to Dynamic Disk using Vista now in Windows XP Disk 1 failed to start and i can't import it, there is a dmio error on System Log, and using Disk Management Console and

Hard disk no longer available in XP after installing Vista
"Siggy" wrote: ok, well i've installed windows 2003 and vista on separate partitions while the dynamic disks have been disconnected during the what will happen with them after I have wiped XP and installed Vista? Currently I have two spanned volumes with a LOT of data on them Make sure you have a usable backup.