Replacing hard drive (C:)

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My thanks to those of you that helped me thru my "imminent hard drive
failure".I gave up on the "Seadisk" and used Andrews advice that sent me to
"disk management'
I did have to purchase a copy of XP Pro OEM and re-do everything. I was able
to save my files by copying them to the new drive. Fortunately the old drive
would still run. HOWEVER, my new XP Pro installation works fine in every
aspect EXCEPT it will not recognise my secondary hard drive that has SO much
info on it. It worked fine up to the transfer and was physically out of the
system during all the re-do operations.
Now the bios recognizes it but Windows XP Pro will not. Disk management says
it's a "dynamic volume" and "alien". I can't understand why it isn't
recognized now.
 
My thanks to those of you that helped me thru my "imminent hard drive
failure".I gave up on the "Seadisk" and used Andrews advice that sent me to
"disk management'
I did have to purchase a copy of XP Pro OEM and re-do everything. I was able
to save my files by copying them to the new drive. Fortunately the old drive
would still run. HOWEVER, my new XP Pro installation works fine in every
aspect EXCEPT it will not recognise my secondary hard drive that has SO much
info on it. It worked fine up to the transfer and was physically out of the
system during all the re-do operations.
Now the bios recognizes it but Windows XP Pro will not. Disk management says
it's a "dynamic volume" and "alien". I can't understand why it isn't
recognized now.
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Apparently you can not do much about it, however I read this and it was indeed
about dynamic and wanting to convert to basic:

It is indeed not possible, but a procdure to not loose your data has been
described in:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=217226

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

Good luck!
 
Thank you for your time and thoughts. I could not do a backup as this was a
secondary disk in my system and it wasn't recognized anymore. I have found a
workaround by using the "Easy Recovery" program but it will take some more
time as it didn't pick up my Mp3, .doc and .rtf material. I'm going to work
it again. When I get all that I need from this now dynamic disk I'll format
and put back the data I've retrieved. However, since I replaced my failed C:
drive with a much much bigger drive I may just install it for future needs.
Thanks,
 
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