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"Dynamic" vs "Basic" Disk Drive
Thanks Barry Page #622 and #623 How Dynamic Disks Work - Dynamic disks are a specialty of Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. No other version of Windows can read them (not even other Vista versions). - Dynamic disks can contain only one operating system. You can't dual boot from another partition on a

Vista not reading slave drive from former XP install.
On page 919 of Windows Vista Inside/Out the author states "Raid-5 volumes are types of dynamic volumes that are NOT available to Windows Vista (they require a server edition of Windows) Since the code base of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is built from the Microsoft Windows ServerT 2003 code base it would

Dynamic disks under vista basic
Alex A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Hello., I have a PC with two Hard Disks and I install XP on Disk 0 and convert it to Dynamic Disk, then i install Vista 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 Problem?

Migration of Vista Upgrade installation to new drive
Don don195...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general mark p wrote: 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 professional

GPT partition offline
After I installed Vista the "Large Drive" didn't show up in My computer, they did show up in the Disk manager, so I deleted the partitioning and reset them back to basic disks. But now no matter what I do I can't convert them to dynamic disks, the "Disk Spanning" never completes the process but always comes up with

SATA и Vista
R. McCarty PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com microsoft public windows vista general By using DiskMgmt.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. It is a good idea to backup/image a

dynamic disks
There were problems with the NF4 raid drivers during Vista beta but that was corrected in a later build. Have a great day. Dennis, I'm glad to hear that the Granted, it was created on a Basic disk, but that's because you don't have the option to select Basic or Dynamic disks during the actual OS installation.

dynamic disks
mark p ma...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Thanks for the replies "Don" wrote: mark p wrote: 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?

Partitioning
mark p ma...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general 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 professional

Hard disk no longer available in XP after installing Vista
... well i've installed windows 2003 and vista on separate partitions while the dynamic disks have been disconnected during the installation. now the thing is, 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.

Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
Shenan Stanley newshel...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp security_admin Alex wrote: BUMP!!! This is a newsgroup. Not a web forum. There is no such thing as a "bump". -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.

"Dynamic" vs "Basic" Disk Drive
Jane C jellyb...@NOSPAMxjgarage.org microsoft public windows vista general Hello Mark, Home Premium and Home Basic do not support dynamic disks. 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

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
Incase of window vista, while I tried to monitor a Dynamic Volume (A Logical Drive of a Disk of Dynamic Type), the perfmon nor PDH library is able to monitor it for Disk Write Byte/sec(it just keep giving 0 Rate). While in case of windows XP it works perfectly fine. I just wanted to know is there any option which

Western Digital SATA 400GB aka Disk1 is offline and cant read
Milhouse Van Houten b...@myrealbox.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup So just to be clear: you're saying this forcing of dynamic volumes only comes into play after you already have three primary volumes? If so, that should affect relatively few people, right? I think most people organize their

Dynamic Disks and Dual Boot Windows XP and Windows Vista
Dave d...@roadrunner.com microsoft public windows vista general I'm not familiar with dynamic disks, but I found this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520 It appears that Vista Home does not support dynamic...... you need Ultimate or Business versions. "HENHERDARNATH" <HENHERDARN...@discussions.microsoft.com>

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
The drive is formatted as a basic disk and both partitions are NTFS primary partitions (I found previously that Vista install doesn't accept dynamic disks for the OS partition). As my copy of Vista is an upgrade, the reinstall has to be initiated from within the existing Vista installation for the key to work.

Dynamic Disks and Dual Boot Windows XP and Windows Vista
Ken Gardner kesgard...@charter.net microsoft public windows vista general "cvp" <c...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: I have two physical hard drives on my 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

dmboot: failed to auto-import disk group ServerDG0
william will...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices 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

dynamic disks created in XP
(Acronis lets you try DD for 30 days for free.) Vista probably has the ability to revert to a basic disk, but I can't do anything more than guess because I've never had the problem. I'd say you should start reading the Vista Help pages on dynamic disks to learn as much as possible about the topic before doing

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
It does not support GPT labelled + Dynamic Disks yet as can be created with Vista. Windows 2000 introduced the concept of Dynamic Disks to get around the limitations of the PC's partitioning scheme. The Logical Disk @@ -175,8 +179,8 @@ config LDM_PARTITION mirrored, striped or RAID volumes, all without the need for