My sata hard drive does not appear in Vista

[Mike]

Bob F,

Ah, I will use my son's computer, which is running XP. I just have to make
sure the new drive is done as a Basic drive.

Mike

 

[Bob F.]

Bob F,

Ah, I will use my son's computer, which is running XP. I just have to make
sure the new drive is done as a Basic drive.

Mike

Right...good luck. Take your time, relax and be patient.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Jane C,

Now that's not good news. What do I do now? Can I make it an external drive?

No. As Jane said, dynamic disks aren't supported in Home Basic or Home
Premium. It doesn't matter whether the drives are internal or
external; dynamic disks are not supported.

If you have dynamic disks you want to use with Home Premium, you'll
need to copy them to basic disks. You can do that on a computer
running XP Professional Vista Enterprise, or Vista Ultimate. You could
either mount the dynamic drive temporarily within the machine to do
the copy or use it externally mounted in an external USB enclosure.

 

[Mike]

I have to come up with a plan for this. I will let you know how it all came
out when I do it.
I cannot thank you all so much. You all have been such a help. Your fast
answers and ideas were great. Again, thank you all very much!

Mike

 

[Bob F.]

I have to come up with a plan for this. I will let you know how it all
came
out when I do it.
I cannot thank you all so much. You all have been such a help. Your fast
answers and ideas were great. Again, thank you all very much!

Mike

Glad to help.

 

[Mike]

One quick question. Which version of Vista will dynamic drives work under?
Thanks.

Mike

 

[Mike]

One quick question. Which version of Vista will dymanic drives work under?
Thanks.

Mike

 

[Bob F.]

One quick question. Which version of Vista will dynamic drives work under?
Thanks.

Mike

It's Home Editions it will NOT work with.

 

[Mike]

Bob F,

So, Ultimate and Business would be ok? I know, I'm a little slow tonight.

Mike

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

One quick question. Which version of Vista will dynamic drives work under?
Thanks.

Enterprise and Ultimate.

 

[Mike]

Thank you very much!

Enterprise and Ultimate.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thank you very much!

You're welcome. Glad to help.