XP unable to boot from dynamic disks? (striping/mirroring question)

[Joe Murphy]

Is it just basic disks that XP can boot from?

The reason I ask is because I would like to mirror or stripe two HDD on my
system so I can use them as one large parition but I can only change a disk
from basic to dynamic *after* the installation of XP is complete. Then XP
says no go on converting the boot partition from basic to dynamic.

Could I do this:
1. Install the OS on a 4GB parition on disk 0 (leaving 32GB of unallocated
space)
2. Boot into XP and run disk management
2. Stripe the unallocated 32GB on disk 0 with disk 1

??

 

[DL]

Is there a reason for using Dynamic?

 

[John John]

I think you will have to install Windows XP on a "Retained Dynamic
Volume". Create the Dynamic volume while the disk is mounted in another
Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer and then "retain" the MBR partition
information with the Diskpart tool RETAIN function. A search on
Microsoft.com for Retained Dynamic Volume should yield the information
needed to accomplish this.

John