Having problem with hard drive

[Guest]

Hi,

I have windows 2000 pro with three seperate hard drives. Two of them have
NTFS. But I am having with the third hard drive. This hard drive is 40 GB.
When the PC boots this hard drive is detected and status is shown as OK. But
when I go to Disk Management I see this hard drive as Disk 1 Dynamic and
Unreadable. There is also a red circle with white cross on the hard drive
icon. I right clicked on this disk and selected "Revert to Basic Disk". Then
I get a dialog box saying that data will be lost if I rever to Basic, do you
wish to continue? I select Yes but then nothing happens and it is still a
Dynamic disk.

Can someone give me an idea as what is going on here and what should I do?
I tried Symantec PartitionInfo 8.0 but can't do anything as everything
appears grayed out when I select this disk.

Thanks for your time.

Joe

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I have windows 2000 pro with three seperate hard drives. Two of them have
NTFS. But I am having with the third hard drive. This hard drive is 40 GB.
When the PC boots this hard drive is detected and status is shown as OK. But
when I go to Disk Management I see this hard drive as Disk 1 Dynamic and
Unreadable. There is also a red circle with white cross on the hard drive
icon. I right clicked on this disk and selected "Revert to Basic Disk". Then
I get a dialog box saying that data will be lost if I rever to Basic, do you
wish to continue? I select Yes but then nothing happens and it is still a
Dynamic disk.

Can someone give me an idea as what is going on here and what should I do?
I tried Symantec PartitionInfo 8.0 but can't do anything as everything
appears grayed out when I select this disk.

Thanks for your time.

Joe

Perhaps your disk has a fundamental problem. Try running
the diagnostic program that its manufacturer provides on his
home site.

If you are unable to convert the dynamic volume back to
a basic volume under Windows then you can do it under
DOS like so:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
- Use delpart.exe (http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm) to
delete all partitions on the problem disk.
The disk will now appear as a basic disk with no partitions defined.
You will, of course, lose all data on it.