dynamic disk problem

flashassassin

flashassassin

flashassassin

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i have just put together my new system after old motherboard died.

i was on xp pro before but have installed vista home premium on the new setup.

the problem is the hard drive with all my data on was originaly formatted as a dynamic disk. vista hp dosent support it.

other than finding someone with an xp pc and copying it all to dvd`s somehow is there any way i can do it with vista? i assume getting a usb external disk holder wouldnt work? it still wouldnt read it?.
thanks
 
thanks for the reply.
if i do that there may be a chance i would lose the data?
although i could copy it first.
vista does give me the option of converting to basic disk but warns that the data will be lost.
 
The document says it won't lose data if you follow the work around. However, i would strongly advise backing up first.
 
Damn A bleeding workaround
Wish i'd found that last week had an absolute nightmare when my previousle bootable xp Hdd changed to a dynamic drive and wouldnt boot

I ended up cloning my Hdd then creating an ISO backup then a format and then restored the ISO.

Very scary at one point HDD had 18 months of business Accounts on it.

Lesson learnt I now have 3 backups and will be going raid1 soon as another measure.
 
i have installed xp now, but to do this i set AHCI to IDE so it would recognise the sata drives, i know i could have put the drivers on a floppy but ive never had any luck doing that.
so i thought after installation i could just set it back but if i do it wont load. so does it matter that its now set to IDE instead of RAID(default) or AHCI?
thanks
 
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IDE is fine.

I think their is some confusion when it comes to IDE/SATA within bios.

I mean IDE is for sata in bios ahci is for something else.

Not sure of the complete wording/understanding and its too late to look it up.

HTH
Matt
 
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