Moving Dynamic Disk

fufiter9246 · February 6th, 2005, 11:23 AM

Hey guys, I recently got a laptop as a desktop replacement, however I have an external HD about 120GB's worth and I tried attaching the drive with an external enclosure system and the only option I have in WINXP Pro is to "Convert to Basic Disk".

I do not want to format my drive, but it seems unless I do I won't be able to use it with WINXP. Any ideas? I really need to keep all of the info on here and if there is a way to attach the disk of convert it to basic without losing my info that'd be great, since it is set as a Dynamic Disk

I did some searching on goggle and such, and I do not have the option to "Import Foreign Disk". Any thoughts?

Thanks.

sechs · February 6th, 2005, 10:13 PM

Is the volume marked as dynamic in the storage management console? How were you using it before and how was it formatted?

Siliconjunkie · February 6th, 2005, 10:57 PM

Converting to basic should not cause loss of data.

You should the option to import the foregin volume.

fufiter9246 · February 6th, 2005, 11:48 PM

well unfortunately it was marked as Dynamic in another system I built with WINXP Pro, i'm moving this to a new laptop utilizing the same OS, but my only option is to convert to basic disk. However i've heard that if i do this i'll lose all my data which i cannot do.

Sound right, or am I wrong?

Siliconjunkie · February 6th, 2005, 11:51 PM

I stand corrected:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...m_upgrade.mspx

Sounds like backup time....

Sixpac_XP · February 7th, 2005, 12:06 AM

You just need to "import" the disk... look here.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...b_cnc_klvo.asp

Siliconjunkie · February 7th, 2005, 12:16 AM

For some reason I was under the impression he wasn't getting that option.

Sixpac_XP · February 7th, 2005, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Siliconjunkie

For some reason I was under the impression he wasn't getting that option.

Hmmm.. the sarcasm runs deep..

Anyways.. I am not worthy and didn't read the first post property.

Basically Windows does not support dynamic disks via external drivers (usb, firewire, etc)... as to KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254105/EN-US/

I would take the drive and put it in a desktop.. import it and then transfer the data. Covert the drive to basic and then transfer the data and then you should be good to go.

[Neo770] · February 7th, 2005, 12:29 AM

Maybe it will work if you enable dynamic conversion for firewire disks?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;299598

fufiter9246 · February 7th, 2005, 10:11 AM

Well there lies another issue. The only other machine in the house is a Windows ME machine, real piece of junk. Would I be able to do the import option?