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Vista & Dynamic Disks / Spanning
I then tried installing to disk 1 but cannot because the options (Delete, Format, New, and Extend) are all disabled. There is an error that says: 'Windows cannot be installed to the selected partition because it has one or more dynamic volumes' How do I proceed? I am thinking it is because of either dynamic disks

Spanned disks in Vista Premium....How come they won't work?
dziring dzir...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices I installed a clean version of Vista on a system previously running XP Media Center. On the media center system I had two drives which were striped to create one volume using the windows dynamic volumes system.

Can't read disk in USB enclosure (Vista, XP)
Under Vista, the disks work without problems. I think I can rule out a device-specific problem as it is the same with two seperate disks. It might be a problem specific to dynamic disks. Is it possible that Vista has modified the data structure of the disk so that it is not accessible from XP anymore?

Dynamic Disks Windows XP and Windows Vista
Liewe Li...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Hi, A couple of days the main harddisk of my computer crashed. On that computer I had next to the main harddisk a spanned volume on two other dynamic disks. I took the opartunity to buy a new computer and installed vista ultimate

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 02-04-07
Roy Schestowitz newsgro...@schestowitz.com comp os linux advocacy Microsoft's blunder [on Dynamic Disks] ,----[ Quote ] I have been in contact with microsoft technical support since Wednesday March 14th. I tried to convert a basic disk to dynamic disk in vista premium, and was given an error message telling me that

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
He could then convert them to dynamic, he then simply put the drives back in the USB enclosures and he has dynamic disks. I cant do this as I have a laptop, I cant believe its impossible but I have tried searching everywhere but cant find a solution that work in Vista. I am running Vista Home Premium.

RECLAIM EXISTING DYNAMIC HARD DRIVE ON VISTA HOME EDITION
William woog...@charter.net microsoft public windowsxp general Are dynamic disks supported in Vista? William (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per Mark: Basic -vs- Dynamic in A disk initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes,

Vista won't use 2nd IDE drive
I installed a clean version of Vista on a system previously running XP Media Center. On the media center system I had two drives which were striped to create one volume using the windows dynamic volumes system. After the installation of Vista (home premium) the two drives show up as separate dynamic volumes.

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
Stephen y...@its.invalid microsoft public windows vista general On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:39:01 -0800, Siggy <Si...@discussions.microsoft.com> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out: 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

RECLAIM EXISTING DYNAMIC HARD DRIVE ON VISTA HOME EDITION
2) After using a 3rd party utility to convert the disks back to basic disks I have ended up with an extra bit of unpartitioned space at the end of my first drive (6Mb). Was the originally reserved and hidden for something? Is it safe to use? Also any links to using disk spanning & dynamic disks in Vista are much

Disk Management Question re converting to dynamic disks
Ok. If you look at this brief article describing basic and dynamic disks, it says it applies to all versions of Vista. From the limited info I could find on the subject it looked like all versions of Vista support dynamic disks. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How

Spanned disks in Vista Premium....How come they won't work?
"William" <woog...@charter.net> wrote in message news:%23G30NiB2GHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05. phx.gbl... Are dynamic disks supported in Vista? A disk initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes,

Convert USB disk to dynamic
Is there a way to copy the whole information from that dynamic drive to a new hard drive that formatted w/ Vista ? "Dave" wrote: 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

Vista Media Center Extender - XBOX 360 unusably slow
Kirk microsoft public windows vista general hello out of curiosity why do you want dynamic disks? "mark p" <ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0BE51D1F-0614-4FAF-8B68-B5C67C52075E@microsoft.com... Hi all I am using Windows Vista home premium I would like to convert my c:\to a dynamic disk is

Dynamic disks in Windows Vista
Ken Gardner kesgard...@charter.net microsoft public windows vista general I have two physical hard drives on my computer. 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 array?

Converting USB disk to Dynamic
Alex A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Having two dynamic disks, i can do striped volumes then i get a improvement on data transfer rate on the disks, but i need to to see the volumes from XP, because my graphics card on vista doens't see my TV, i just want a solution to

Convert USB disk to dynamic
RC White r...@grandecom.net microsoft public windows vista file_management Hi, Thomas. The Help file in Disk Management is pretty good - but it is not always easy to locate See the top of the page headed "Change a Basic Disk into a Dynamic Disk", where it explains that a dynamic disk can "span multiple volumes".

Welcome Vista, Goodbye Dynamic Disks (Unless You Pay Extra)
Robert "Dave B." wrote: Well, from what I can tell with the research I did since your post (because I was curious about Vista dynamic disk support), all versions of Vista support dynamic disks (where as XP Home did not, only Pro), but I can't find any info about moving a dynamic disk from XP Pro to Vista.

Unable to install extender software for XBOX 360
Squibbly ligger2...@yahoo.co.uk microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices 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, i have totally forgot about this,

Vista + Raid = :(
Maybe Vista is protecting its bootup, secretly living on D:? When you select New Simple Volume do you get the error immediately? Is there time to select *against* a drive letter and file system? Does that complete, resulting in raw space? Then does delete work? Since dynamic disks are complicated,