200Gb Basic Disk becomes 137Gb Dynamic Disk

[Guest]

I have a 200Gb WD disk on a Promise controller card. WinXP sees it as 200Gb
when it is a 'Basic Disk' and it appears to work perfectly.

As soon as I convert it to a 'Dynamic Disk', WinXP immediately reports it as
a 137Gb disk.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Steven Lyall

 

[Bob I]

Did you happen to run the WD disk extender utility on it to make it 200 GB?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a 200Gb WD disk on a Promise controller card. WinXP sees it as 200Gb
when it is a 'Basic Disk' and it appears to work perfectly.

As soon as I convert it to a 'Dynamic Disk', WinXP immediately reports it as
a 137Gb disk.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Steven Lyall

Check this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[Guest]

Just clicked 'Fomat'.

Thanks,

Steven

Did you happen to run the WD disk extender utility on it to make it 200 GB?

 

[Guest]

Check this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Thanks - will check it out.

Steven

 

[seedo]

hello:

i have the same problem but i dont want to format my disk, cause i have
important files on it, my disk is sata.
can any body help me.

thank u