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by mbarras

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i have an old P 200 MMX. I installed Windows 2000 pro on it an everything works fine, but when i tried to convert my basic disks to dynamic, I could not see the options on the menu. My comp was not a laptop! I search the registry and everything seems fine! I have two disks, one with 3.4 gigs and one with 17 gigs, all IDE.

Any idea?

Thanks!

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by ptchtech

did you go into disk management and right click the disk you want to convert?
Make sure your file system is NTFS, and you also need at least one MB of unpartitioned space on the disk to be able to convert

by shmaltz

If your disk is now a Dynamic disk because you converted it. Most options are not avaiable, they are only availabel for disks that have been created as a Dynamic disk.

by fenaikh

Hi

Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDBCurrentDockInfo subkey.
Double-click DockingState and set its value either to 0 (to enable the dynamic disk upgrade option) or to 1 (to disable the upgrade option).
Click OK.
Close the registry editor.
Restart the computer.

Good luck

Mohamed

by mymail

HOW TO: Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP Professional (Q309044) - this will answer youre questions(really simple)

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