Hi, David.
I'll bet it will work if you just install that drive as primary master, then
boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and tell it to partition and format the drive.
Or did you mean you want to add this drive as a slave or secondary to your
already-installed WinXP system? If so, just add it physically, then use
WinXP's Disk Management to delete all existing partitions and then create
new ones and format them.
If there is data on the old drive that you want to recover, I think you
should have done that from the old computer before moving the drive. I
haven't had the guts to try dynamic drives; I read a lot of good things
about them, but I also read about a lot of gotchas resulting in lost data.
:>(
Or have I just not understood what you're trying to do?
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
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"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I know in order to get the drive back to basic I will
> have to format. However how will I copy the drive and
> make the information available after I reinstall the OS
> after completing the reformat.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Ok, I pulled a Western Digital 80gig drive from an old
> >Dell that was upgraded. I built a new system and I am
> >trying to add the hardrive to the system. When it boots
> >the drive is detected however it does not load the OS.
> So
> >I am now trying to install XP Professional since it
> >recognizes Dynamic disk and it shows the partition as
> ><Dyanmic Drive> with 0mb available. The drive had 40gb
> >available before removing it from the old system.
> >Anysuggestions how to retain the customers information?
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