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Creating Dynamic disks in Win2K Pro

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by tejota 2 views

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I have a new server with 2 separate 18gb drives with no RAID controller. They show up as 2 separate disk drives, disk0 and disk1. I installed 2000 Pro on disk0 with a 4gb system partition. What I would like to do is combine the remainder of disk0, about 12gbs, and all of disk1, 18gbs, into one 30gb partition or volume. Is this possible? I'm having problems with this cause when I convert disk0 to a dynamic disk it doesn't work. I end up rebooting and getting the message that the ntloader files are missing.....or something like that. I also tried selecting the remainder of disk0 and then try to convert to dynamic and I get the same thing. In theory, what I'm trying to do is create one dynamic disk with the remainder of disk0 and disk1. I get the feeling though that this can't be done with the disk containing the system partition. What do you think?

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by shanghai sam

I think you are trying to create a spanned volume. Here's the case: You want to convert the drive into a dynamic disk, create a simple volume (4gb) and another spanned volume (12 gb and 18 gb) from two physical drives. The problem with this is that if it was created as a partition on a basik disk that was subsequently converted into a simple volume on a dynamic disk, it cannot be resized nor made part of a spanned volume. For you to create a spanned volume, your volume must have been created asa simple volume, _never_ as a basic disk partition that was converted to a simple volume.

allan

by r. a. caluste

(weird, my previous post shows im a user deleted)

I think you are trying to create a spanned volume. Here's the case: You want to convert the drive into a dynamic disk, create a simple volume (4gb) and another spanned volume (12 gb and 18 gb) from two physical drives. The problem with this is that if it was created as a partition on a basik disk that was subsequently converted into a simple volume on a dynamic disk, it cannot be resized nor made part of a spanned volume. For you to create aspanned volume, your volume must have been created as a simple volume, _never_ as a basic disk partition that was converted to a simple volume.

allan
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by maelgwyn

Another one. you cannot use RAID, software or hardware on the boot partition or the system partition. Also, i think that 2000 doesnt like it if your disk with the system partition on it is a dynamic disk. The best way is to seperate the remainderof the first disk and combine it on the second disk with the wizard.

by tejota

So when I am installing 2K and I get to the part where I'm prompted to either enter to install on Disk0 or create partion, What do I do? Do I go ahead and create a partion? If so, I went that route and it didn't seem to work unless I'm leaving another step out. Or, do I go ahead and press enter to install 2K on the entire 18gb drive, (disk0)?

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