As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in laptops are
presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a possible
solution to this. At which level is this feature turned off? Is there some
variety of 'switch' in place to tell the disk management utility to run in
laptop mode, or would simply "borrowing" the disk management utility from a
Desktop PC add this functionality, or does this inability run deeper than
just the tool?

To partially answer my own question, borrowing a "working" disk management
utility doesn't fix this issue. Are there any other possibilities?

"UnicycleMatt" wrote:

> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in laptops are
> presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a possible
> solution to this. At which level is this feature turned off? Is there some
> variety of 'switch' in place to tell the disk management utility to run in
> laptop mode, or would simply "borrowing" the disk management utility from a
> Desktop PC add this functionality, or does this inability run deeper than
> just the tool?
>
>

Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any advantage to
dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.

--
Kerry

UnicycleMatt wrote:
> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
> laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
> suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this feature
> turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place to tell the
> disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or would simply
> "borrowing" the disk management utility from a Desktop PC add this
> functionality, or does this inability run deeper than just the tool?

I have more than one disk available to my laptop.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any advantage to
> dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.
>
> --
> Kerry
>
> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> > As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
> > laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
> > suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this feature
> > turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place to tell the
> > disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or would simply
> > "borrowing" the disk management utility from a Desktop PC add this
> > functionality, or does this inability run deeper than just the tool?
>
>
>

Internal or external disks? I don't think you'll get around the laptop thing
anyway. If you do then you'll have to overcome the external disks not being
compatible with dynamic drives. You still haven't told us what you are
trying to accomplish. Maybe there's another way of doing it.

--
Kerry

UnicycleMatt wrote:
> I have more than one disk available to my laptop.
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>
>> Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any
>> advantage to dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.
>>
>> --
>> Kerry
>>
>> UnicycleMatt wrote:
>>> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
>>> laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
>>> suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this feature
>>> turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place to tell the
>>> disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or would simply
>>> "borrowing" the disk management utility from a Desktop PC add this
>>> functionality, or does this inability run deeper than just the tool?

External, with third party software (Ximeta's NDAS) to mount it as a SCSI
harddrive. I gave up on the dynamic drive, primarilaly I didn't want to lose
my data to convert it to a standard drive but some things just have to be
done. I never really intended to have a dynamic drive in the first instance,
so the only thing was the data.

Thanks for your help :-)


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> Internal or external disks? I don't think you'll get around the laptop thing
> anyway. If you do then you'll have to overcome the external disks not being
> compatible with dynamic drives. You still haven't told us what you are
> trying to accomplish. Maybe there's another way of doing it.
>
> --
> Kerry
>
> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> > I have more than one disk available to my laptop.
> >
> > "Kerry Brown" wrote:
> >
> >> Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any
> >> advantage to dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kerry
> >>
> >> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> >>> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
> >>> laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
> >>> suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this feature
> >>> turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place to tell the
> >>> disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or would simply
> >>> "borrowing" the disk management utility from a Desktop PC add this
> >>> functionality, or does this inability run deeper than just the tool?
>
>
>

I still don't understand what you're trying to do. It sounds like one of the
disks (external?) is already a dynamic disk and you want to convert back to
basic. There is no easy way to convert back to basic. There are some 3rd
party applications that claim to do it. Personally I wouldn't bother with
them. You'd have to do a backup in any case so why not just backup then
re-partition as a basic disk and restore the backup.

--
Kerry

UnicycleMatt wrote:
> External, with third party software (Ximeta's NDAS) to mount it as a
> SCSI harddrive. I gave up on the dynamic drive, primarilaly I didn't
> want to lose my data to convert it to a standard drive but some
> things just have to be done. I never really intended to have a
> dynamic drive in the first instance, so the only thing was the data.
>
> Thanks for your help :-)
>
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>
>> Internal or external disks? I don't think you'll get around the
>> laptop thing anyway. If you do then you'll have to overcome the
>> external disks not being compatible with dynamic drives. You still
>> haven't told us what you are trying to accomplish. Maybe there's
>> another way of doing it.
>>
>> --
>> Kerry
>>
>> UnicycleMatt wrote:
>>> I have more than one disk available to my laptop.
>>>
>>> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any
>>>> advantage to dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kerry
>>>>
>>>> UnicycleMatt wrote:
>>>>> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
>>>>> laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
>>>>> suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this
>>>>> feature turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place
>>>>> to tell the disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or
>>>>> would simply "borrowing" the disk management utility from a
>>>>> Desktop PC add this functionality, or does this inability run
>>>>> deeper than just the tool?

Thanks, that's what I've ended up doing (backing up and repartitioning)



"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> I still don't understand what you're trying to do. It sounds like one of the
> disks (external?) is already a dynamic disk and you want to convert back to
> basic. There is no easy way to convert back to basic. There are some 3rd
> party applications that claim to do it. Personally I wouldn't bother with
> them. You'd have to do a backup in any case so why not just backup then
> re-partition as a basic disk and restore the backup.
>
> --
> Kerry
>
> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> > External, with third party software (Ximeta's NDAS) to mount it as a
> > SCSI harddrive. I gave up on the dynamic drive, primarilaly I didn't
> > want to lose my data to convert it to a standard drive but some
> > things just have to be done. I never really intended to have a
> > dynamic drive in the first instance, so the only thing was the data.
> >
> > Thanks for your help :-)
> >
> >
> > "Kerry Brown" wrote:
> >
> >> Internal or external disks? I don't think you'll get around the
> >> laptop thing anyway. If you do then you'll have to overcome the
> >> external disks not being compatible with dynamic drives. You still
> >> haven't told us what you are trying to accomplish. Maybe there's
> >> another way of doing it.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kerry
> >>
> >> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> >>> I have more than one disk available to my laptop.
> >>>
> >>> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Why do want a dynamic disk in a laptop? There really isn't any
> >>>> advantage to dynamic disks unless you have more than one disk.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Kerry
> >>>>
> >>>> UnicycleMatt wrote:
> >>>>> As explained in the article 232463, by design, dynamic disks in
> >>>>> laptops are presently unsupported. I'm wondering if anyone can
> >>>>> suggest a possible solution to this. At which level is this
> >>>>> feature turned off? Is there some variety of 'switch' in place
> >>>>> to tell the disk management utility to run in laptop mode, or
> >>>>> would simply "borrowing" the disk management utility from a
> >>>>> Desktop PC add this functionality, or does this inability run
> >>>>> deeper than just the tool?
>
>
>