Dynamic Disk

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David

I know in order to get the drive back to basic I will
have to format. However how will I copy the drive and
make the information available after I reinstall the OS
after completing the reformat.
 
Hi, David.

I'll bet it will work if you just install that drive as primary master, then
boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and tell it to partition and format the drive.

Or did you mean you want to add this drive as a slave or secondary to your
already-installed WinXP system? If so, just add it physically, then use
WinXP's Disk Management to delete all existing partitions and then create
new ones and format them.

If there is data on the old drive that you want to recover, I think you
should have done that from the old computer before moving the drive. I
haven't had the guts to try dynamic drives; I read a lot of good things
about them, but I also read about a lot of gotchas resulting in lost data.
:>(

Or have I just not understood what you're trying to do?

RC
 
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