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Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
We have to "comb out" all those instructions for dynamic disks (which few of us use) and GUID disks (which almost none of us use). But, if we thread our way through, we will find what we need. The Vista Help and Support file also has some information (search for "foreign disk", not just "foreign" and look at the

Partitioning
So the really wierd question is why is Vista trying to tell me that a) it's dynamic when it is not and b) why it's invalid when it works in XP "JW" wrote: Does the From the limited info I could find on the subject it looked like all versions of Vista support dynamic disks. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost

Dynamic Disks not being detected
Squibbly ligger2...@yahoo.co.uk 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

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
Thanks in advance! "Jane C" wrote: Hello Martin, Which Edition of Vista do you have on your laptop? If it is either Home Basic or Home Premium, then I'm afraid that it will not support the use of dynamic disks. Only Business, Ultimate and Enterprise Editions support the use of dynamic disks.

Vista and ext HD probs
Ken Gardner kesgard...@charter.net microsoft public windows vista general "Ken Gardner" wrote: On Disk Manager, the two physical drives show up as Disk 0 with Can you extend the partition of a basic disk in Vista? If so, I might solve my problem by deleting the D partition and then extending the C partition.

Partitioning
Jane C janecol...@invalid.iinet.net.au microsoft public windows vista general Hello Ken, If your second drive is a dynamic disk, then Home Premium cannot use it. Home Editions of Vista do not support dynamic disks. -- Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-) "Ken"

Dynamic Disks Windows XP and Windows Vista
Ken Gardner kesgard...@charter.net microsoft public windows vista general "Alexander Suhovey" <asuho...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ufRYyy2SHHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... 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

Partitioning
Ken Gardner kesgard...@charter.net microsoft public windows vista general "Alexander Suhovey" <asuho...@gmail.com> wrote: 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

Fix to the fix! - Re: [2.6 PATCH] LDM: Fix for Windows Vista ...
Frank Loizzi usenetg...@loizzi.de microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "cw823" <cw...@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:B197FF9B-B762-4C97-B7C2-A8FC8F8A07E1@microsoft.com... Are the drives showing up as Basic or Dynamic disks? They are indicated as dynamic disks.

Spanned disks in Vista Premium....How come they won't work?
Msc you can convert any "Basic" Disk directly to a Dynamic Volume. You Right Click the Disk "X" designation and the context menu will have a "Convert to a Dynamic Disk" option. Home versions of Vista do not support the use of dynamic disks. -- Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-) Batteries not included.

Help Please : Basic & Dynamic HD's
Alex A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Hello., I have one PC with two Disks and I install XP on Disk 0 and convert it to Dynamic Disk, then i install Vista Business on Disk 1 and convert it to Dynamic Disk, but now on XP I can't import the Disk 1, how can I solve this

Coverting to basic disk from dynamic
siggy si...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general i will be setting up a dual boot scenario anyway (I posted another Q about this), 2003 and vista so the dynamic disks will have to be visible in both OS's "Slugsie" wrote: In theory, as long as you don't touch the volumes during setup,

Vista won't recognize HDD
I don't think Vista Home Premium can recognize all types of Dynamic disks. I have one that was created by my XP Pro 64-bit and whether installed as USB drive or internal disk, my Vista Home Premium 64-bit would not recognize it. (It was GUID disk. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/302873) I had to reload

How to dual boot Vista and XP using Dynamic Disks
This occurs with firewall and av all stopped. I (no longer -- thanks to dynamic disks!) have OneCare installed, and the Xbox most definately can connect to the PC as it manages to bring up initial windows albeit with slow response. Host machine is dual core (Pentium D 820) with 3Ghz ram running Vista Ultimate x64.

Format second harddisk as dynamic/basic
Alex A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp security_admin You don't understand what i said i already converted both disks to dynamic but now on Windows XP, i can't open or import the Disk 1 that i convert to Dynamic using Windows Vista, have a dmio error on windows startup event log,

Converting USB disk to Dynamic
Ale Drinker dr...@pubalot.con aus computers I installed Vista Basic (Clean) onto what was my Win 2000 system but find that I can't read the dynamic data disks that I have. Is there a way to convert them without losing their data? I also have a WinXP Home system & an XP Pro system still available if that helps. AD.

Repartitioning drives in Vista Premium
RC White, MVP r...@grandecom.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi, Milhouse. this forcing of dynamic volumes only comes into play after you .... I can delete and recreate volumes as my needs change - and they have quite often changed. I never used dynamic volumes until Vista, and still have only

Can't convert iSCSI disk to dynamic
When I try to load them into Vista it says no drivers found(or something like that). Am I using the wrong drivers? I see none that are explicity for Vista Is it because they are formatted as dynamic disks? Am I using the right drivers but loading them improperly? I tried to search but couldn't find anything.

dynamic disks
Alex A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp security_admin BUMP!!! Please help me solving this problem... Thanks., Alex.

dynamic disks created in XP
Albert Giuliano agiuli...@fonar.com microsoft public windows vista general I have Vista Premium, I upgraded a machine originally running XP Pro with 4 hard drives converted to Dynamic disks spanned (so as to make one large disk). After I installed Vista the "Large Drive" didn't show up in My computer, they did show