disk management - importing foreign disk

i've got a boot c: drive as primary-0, another ide drive
as primary-1. the primary-1 drive shows up as a dynamic
foreign drive when in disk management.

in trying to import the foreign drive, i get the following
pop-up dialog box saying:

"dmadmin.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows. You will need to restart the program.

An error log is being created."

a message is created in the system event log saying:

"The Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service service
terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s). The
following corrective action will be taken in 0
milliseconds: No action."

bottom line, my foreign disk is not imported (30 gb of
data not accessible).

i still think this disk is recoverable (optimist?), but
searches through various search engines and ms support
sites have not provided a solution.

does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks.

jim wedberg