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October 24, 2007 at 04:41 AM
brian

Dynamic drive in XP

by brian . Updated 18 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

I installed a secondary hard drive in to XP SP2 as a dynamic drive. Later, the motherboard went down and I ended up replacing the mb, cpu, ram, graphics and primary hard drive. After all was working again I plugged in the dynamic drive only for windows to tell me that it wasn?t formatted. The drive was working fine up to the old mb going down. Primary drive is NTFS. How can I get the drive going again?
Setting the drive as a 32Mb limited drive, xp says :
Partition, basic, healthy, active, 31.50Gb, 100% free, online, not accessible, the volume does not contain a recognised file system.

Whilst just setting it as an unlimited slave, xp says:
As above but unformatted, there is an option to convert to dynamic disk.

Any idea?s ? I?ve read that dynamic drives are unreliable, maybe I shouldn?t have used it. I?d like to get the data off of it.

Thanks

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