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A pox on dynamic disks

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jimmyj68

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:roll:Snail mail bought my Vista Beta 2 today.

I have a 160 gig C: and an 80 gig D:. My plan was to install Vista 32bit on drive D: and fool about with it. But - - -

I recently switched out my system from an Antec P-160 to a new Solo. I opted at the time to do a clean install of winXP pro on the new 160 gig drive and made it drive C: in place of the 80 gig. Windows for some reason decided to put the 80 gig drive alphabetically after my optical drive. So while I was in drive configuration changing these around I decided to make the two hard drives C and D dynamic drives thinking maybe that would make things go a little faster.

Today, Vista wouldn't load on the 80 gig D: drive as planned because it can't deal with a dynamic drive. Now I want to change both c & d back to basic drives but don't know how. Who can help please?
 
Not again - - - - -no no no - - - - I kind of expected that. Luckily system hasn't been up long enough this time to collect too much stuff I can't afford to lose. And again - I can just let Vista sit until the final program comes out. I expect a ground zero load of that anyway.

Oh - wait a minute, as part of my new case install I decided to drop my floppy drive. Now I can't use drive scrubber to get a clean slate for the new program.
 
The arstechnica workaround does not require a re-format, and works like a charm. However, if there's valuable data, and data loss would be a disaster, the msft way is safer.
 
😱 That was so easy. I'm embarrassed I didn't look that up myself. Somewhere in the back of my mind was this idea that you weren't supposed to be able to do that. Thanks again. Now for Vista on D:
 
Well my first post using Vista. Thanks again slow learner. Once drive was reverted to basic and formatted Vista loaded without a hitch. It's a little wierd seeming but I'll give it a chance.
 
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