Dynamic Partitions

[Jon Davis]

I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID
0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive.

I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it
installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd
never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition.

Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth
asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot
loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from the
nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic
partitions?

Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be overcome
in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either.

Jon

 

[Zack Whittaker]

I'm personally not sure... having said that, Vista is a brand new product
being "advanced" and all.
Is it worth trying it and reporting back? )

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[Pierre Szwarc]

It might be overcome on EFI machines, but very probably not on BIOS
machines. This is because making a disk dynamic makes the partition table
and boot sector alien to the BIOS.
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"Jon Davis" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
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|I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID
| 0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive.
|
| I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it
| installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd
| never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition.
|
| Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth
| asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot
| loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from
the
| nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic
| partitions?
|
| Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be
overcome
| in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either.
|
| Jon
|
|

 

[Jon Davis]

Heh... well that's sorta what I said I did over two weekends. I tried. )

Jon