Dynamique disk with my notebook

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Hi everyone!

It seems that you can't see dinamic disks on notebooks or laptops. I have a
new acer laptop with windows vista and I have an internal disk from an old PC
that I have puted in a external USB box. When I plug it I can see it in the
disk manager in the administrator utilities as not connected. In a desktop PC
with XP you have in the right click menu the import external disk option that
mounts the disk (dinamic). Do you have this option in window vista? Does it
works on portable PCs?. An other option is convert the dinamic disc in base
disk, but windows says that the data will be lost. I have search in the
internet and I have found that using dskprobe and editing it to change the
bit "42" to "07" changes the disk type. This sounds too easy to work well.
Can anybody gime some advice? Thank you very much in advance!!

Martin.
 
Hello Martin,

Which Edition of Vista do you have on your laptop? If it is either Home
Basic or Home Premium, then I'm afraid that it will not support the use of
dynamic disks. Only Business, Ultimate and Enterprise Editions support the
use of dynamic disks.
 
Thanks for your fast answer Jane,

I am afraid it is window Home premium, I guess I'll have to try to converted
to a base disk anyone can get me so tips about the use of dskprobe or other
methods? Thanks in advance!
 
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