Digit Technology Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Basic and dynamic disk in windows xp. Urgent help required..

enoonmai · 10-10-2004, 04:01 PM

D00d, be really careful with these things. Did you choose Dynamic disk when using the diskmgmt snap-in? If you're a home user, ALWAYS choose basic. If you're running Windows Server 2003, its OK (?) to use Dynamic volumes.
What you need to do is boot off the WinXP CD, enter the Recovery Console and then format the dynamic volume (whatever drive letter you gave the volumes) and then restart and reinstall.
For more info, check out this and this
Next time, be careful.

10-10-2004, 04:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
enoonmai Wise Old Owl Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Parked diagonally in a parallel universe Posts: 1,304	D00d, be really careful with these things. Did you choose Dynamic disk when using the diskmgmt snap-in? If you're a home user, ALWAYS choose basic. If you're running Windows Server 2003, its OK (?) to use Dynamic volumes. What you need to do is boot off the WinXP CD, enter the Recovery Console and then format the dynamic volume (whatever drive letter you gave the volumes) and then restart and reinstall. For more info, check out this and this Next time, be careful. __________________ Face it, kid! Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something significant - Calvin A64 3000+@2.4G/Asus A8V-DLX/1G DDR400/BBA X800 XT PE/320G HGST SATA2 Playing FEAR XP/LSW2