Dynamic Disk Drives

Q

qwerty

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
recover my system?

Thanks,

qwerty
 
P

philo

qwerty said:
Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a
dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a
different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard
shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to
recover my system?
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No...
don't fool with dynamic disks.


As to your machine that won't boot

try running chkdsk /r from the repair console
 
Q

qwerty

Dave said:
What happens when you try?
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It no longer has the option, I guess that answers my question. The
reason I asked was, I am trying to restore a hard drive from an old
machine to a new one. The old machine has 2 partitions that are simple
dynamic. The PC has the system files on drive C (ntldr.exe,
ntdetect.com, bootini) but the boot files are on drive D ( winnt, system
volume info. The C drive is the active partition. I've tried doing a
repair install on the new PC and used a Emer. repair disk with the
setup.log pointing to the correct partitions but it always fails. I was
wondering if it because the old drives were setup as dynamic or is it
because I'm using an upgrade CD for the repair process instead of a full
install CD (Win 2000 Pro). What do you think?
 

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