What if I DON'T want a Dynamic Disk?

[Steve Nielsen]

I must be having brain-flatulance, but it's been a while since I've
added a HDD to a system under Win2K Pro.

I stuck in a second HDD for some file copy testing, set it as IDE
Pri/Sec. In Disk Management there was no option to partition it (Greyed
out) and my only choice was to write a signature to it and make it a
Dynamic Disk. All I wanted was a Basic Disk. It works fine and my
testing is ok, but I recall adding disks to Win2K was a bit more
straightforward when I did it in the past. Someone please enlighten me.

OS is Win2k Pro SP3

Thanks
Steve

 

[Guest]

|I must be having brain-flatulance, but it's been a while since I've
|added a HDD to a system under Win2K Pro.
|
|I stuck in a second HDD for some file copy testing, set it as IDE
|Pri/Sec. In Disk Management there was no option to partition it (Greyed
|out) and my only choice was to write a signature to it and make it a
|Dynamic Disk. All I wanted was a Basic Disk. It works fine and my
|testing is ok, but I recall adding disks to Win2K was a bit more
|straightforward when I did it in the past. Someone please enlighten me.
|
|OS is Win2k Pro SP3
|
|Thanks
|Steve
|

There are usually two steps in there - one for writing a signature, and
another for changing it to dynamic. You should let it write a signature, but
you don't have to check the box for the drive in the window that offers to
"upgrade" the disk to dynamic.
If you delete the partitions on the disk, then you should be able to
right-click on it and "revert to basic".

What size was the disk? Maybe there is some issue there (that I don't know
about)?

 

[Steve Nielsen]

|I must be having brain-flatulance, but it's been a while since I've
|added a HDD to a system under Win2K Pro.
|
|I stuck in a second HDD for some file copy testing, set it as IDE
|Pri/Sec. In Disk Management there was no option to partition it (Greyed
|out) and my only choice was to write a signature to it and make it a
|Dynamic Disk. All I wanted was a Basic Disk. It works fine and my
|testing is ok, but I recall adding disks to Win2K was a bit more
|straightforward when I did it in the past. Someone please enlighten me.
|
|OS is Win2k Pro SP3
|
|Thanks
|Steve
|

There are usually two steps in there - one for writing a signature, and
another for changing it to dynamic. You should let it write a signature, but
you don't have to check the box for the drive in the window that offers to
"upgrade" the disk to dynamic.
If you delete the partitions on the disk, then you should be able to
right-click on it and "revert to basic".

Ok, I must've missed that opportunity. It's not a big deal, the disk
worked for the test I was conducting, I guess I've just developed a
certain paranoia concerning Microsoft determining what's "best" for me
since having to use XP at work

What size was the disk? Maybe there is some issue there (that I don't know
about)?

40 gig. Don't think that matters.

Steve