Install 2nd Hard Drive

[Lee]

I'm trying to install a 2nd hard drive, I see it in device manager and in
disk management but it says Dynamic and foreign with a yellow triangle. I
can't assign a drive letter. WD driver test passed, I still can not access
this drive. This hd is from an vista machine also.
Can anybody help?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

I'm trying to install a 2nd hard drive, I see it in device manager and in
disk management but it says Dynamic and foreign with a yellow triangle. I
can't assign a drive letter. WD driver test passed, I still can not access
this drive. This hd is from an vista machine also.
Can anybody help?

Look under the section 'how to change from Dynamic to Basic'. It is an XP
tutorial, but Vista is the same.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044

You can format it from the same Disk Management area too, but do the
conversion first

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[Bob F.]

I'm trying to install a 2nd hard drive, I see it in device manager and in
disk management but it says Dynamic and foreign with a yellow triangle. I
can't assign a drive letter. WD driver test passed, I still can not access
this drive. This hd is from an vista machine also.
Can anybody help?

Usually when a drive is formatted as Dynamic, it's from a RAID or server
system. It may mean the data on that drive straddles other drives, or at
least it's set up to do so. I have not been able to mount any dynamic drive
without completely formatting it, erasing all the data. So if you want data
on it, you need to put it back where it came from, copy the data and then
remove it. If you find success keeping the data, without putting it back,
I'd like to know about it.