Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
recover my system?

Thanks,

qwerty

"qwerty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
> dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
> different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
> shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
> recover my system?



No...
don't fool with dynamic disks.


As to your machine that won't boot

try running chkdsk /r from the repair console

What happens when you try?


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"qwerty" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
> dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
> different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
> shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
> recover my system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> qwerty

philo wrote:
> "qwerty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
>> dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
>> different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
>> shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
>> recover my system?
>
>
>
> No...
> don't fool with dynamic disks.
>
>
> As to your machine that won't boot
>
> try running chkdsk /r from the repair console
>
>
Thanks, I'll try it.

Dave Patrick wrote:
> What happens when you try?
>
>
It no longer has the option, I guess that answers my question. The
reason I asked was, I am trying to restore a hard drive from an old
machine to a new one. The old machine has 2 partitions that are simple
dynamic. The PC has the system files on drive C (ntldr.exe,
ntdetect.com, bootini) but the boot files are on drive D ( winnt, system
volume info. The C drive is the active partition. I've tried doing a
repair install on the new PC and used a Emer. repair disk with the
setup.log pointing to the correct partitions but it always fails. I was
wondering if it because the old drives were setup as dynamic or is it
because I'm using an upgrade CD for the repair process instead of a full
install CD (Win 2000 Pro). What do you think?

You might give this a go to recover your data.

http://irecover.diy-datarecovery-nl.qarchive.org/


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"qwerty" wrote:
> It no longer has the option, I guess that answers my question. The
> reason I asked was, I am trying to restore a hard drive from an old
> machine to a new one. The old machine has 2 partitions that are simple
> dynamic. The PC has the system files on drive C (ntldr.exe,
> ntdetect.com, bootini) but the boot files are on drive D ( winnt, system
> volume info. The C drive is the active partition. I've tried doing a
> repair install on the new PC and used a Emer. repair disk with the
> setup.log pointing to the correct partitions but it always fails. I was
> wondering if it because the old drives were setup as dynamic or is it
> because I'm using an upgrade CD for the repair process instead of a full
> install CD (Win 2000 Pro). What do you think?