Dymanic Hard Disk??? Not working..help needed

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Hello,

I installed a new 80Gb hard drive to my Win XP Pro machine and used disk
management to format it.

Followed the only option route in to making the disk Dynamic...although if i
had the option i would not do that.

Anyway i select to format the drive and when it finishes, after 99%, i got
an error message, "FORMAT FAILED".!!! For no particular reason i did a quick
format this time since i did not want to spend another 30 mins formatting.

After the quick format the disk was visible and operational but Dynamic.
Tried to find a way to make it basic but no luck.

Disk seemed to be working fine and then copied some 40gb data and gave it to
a friend to put it on his Wix XP pro machine.

The problem starts now as when he tries to open the drive, it says that
drive is not formatted!!!!.

In disk management the drive seems to be healthy but it does not display a
file system. Originally it was NTFS format.

Other than that is that Disk management recognise the drive as 40Gb(the size
of data that i copied) and not as 80GB drive.

Any ideas? Would my PC be able to see what is on that drive instead of
another PC. I am not new in this kind of thing but this has never happened
before.

Please provide with comments, help or questions so we can resolve this thing.
 
Hello,

I installed a new 80Gb hard drive to my Win XP Pro machine and used disk
management to format it.

Followed the only option route in to making the disk Dynamic...although if i
had the option i would not do that.
Click to expand...

In Disk Management right click on the disk (where it says dynamic) and
select revert back to basic.
 
usually when you convert to a dynamic disk, the only way to restore back to
a basic disk is to backup the data, format the disk and restore the data
Just out of curiosity, why are you using dynamic disks anyway?

E.
 
hello E.

I dont want to use dynamic disk. I dont i even understand what they do... As
i wrote earlier, i followed windows disk management in to creating a new
formated NTFS single partition disk...
And what i got?

A Dynamic disk and now i am risking loosing all the data in it. There was no
option for conversion at any point neither did i select the drive to be a
dynamic one.

After the format that failed and the quick format that succeded, the disk
came up operational but dynamic.

Now my friend cannot open the disk at all and its like the boot record is
missing or never created....

Any thoughts?
 
I'm not sure I understand whether there is data already on it, you say you
formatted and that failed and a quick format then succeeded... if that is
the case then there isn't any data to extract, so you could just wipe the
whole partition using Windows disk manager, or even the BIOS if you wanted
to do a low-level format (provided your BIOS is capable of that) and create
a new partition that way.

If I've misunderstood and there is data on the disk...

Is there any way you could take the disk out and put it in an external
housing that will make it like a USB attached drive and access the data that
way? Using disk management if you right click on the drive is there a
"Initialise Disk" or "Reactivate disk"

E.
 
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