Problem with a Dynamic disk

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Richard Perry

I hope that someone here would be able to help me with this problem. I am
new to Dynamic Disks. I wanted to try to learn about this situation, so I
took a machine with 2 hard drives with Windows 2000 Server installed. I
converted the first disk to a dynamic disk, then converted the second disk
to dynamic as well. I wanted to merge the 2 dynamic volumes together, but I
couldn't do it since the first disk was converted from basic to dynamic.

The first drive was the C drive, then 2 CDROMs (D & E) then the 2nd HDD was
the F drive. I wanted to move F to D. I removed the drive letters for both
CDROMs, then tried to change the F drive to D. It said that it needed to
reboot. So, I rebooted, and now the dynamic disk is not available. I tried
to import it, but then I get all kinds of problems. It has been about 2 or 3
weeks now since I looked at it, so I don't remember all of the errors. But
if anyone knows of any good resource to recover from this, or if anyone has
had experience with this kind of problem, I would greatly appreciate the
help!

Richard
 
I hope that someone here would be able to help me with this problem. I
am new to Dynamic Disks. I wanted to try to learn about this
situation, so I took a machine with 2 hard drives with Windows 2000
Server installed. I converted the first disk to a dynamic disk, then
converted the second disk to dynamic as well. I wanted to merge the 2
dynamic volumes together, but I couldn't do it since the first disk
was converted from basic to dynamic.

The first drive was the C drive, then 2 CDROMs (D & E) then the 2nd
HDD was the F drive. I wanted to move F to D. I removed the drive
letters for both CDROMs, then tried to change the F drive to D. It
said that it needed to reboot. So, I rebooted, and now the dynamic
disk is not available. I tried to import it, but then I get all kinds
of problems. It has been about 2 or 3 weeks now since I looked at it,
so I don't remember all of the errors. But if anyone knows of any good
resource to recover from this, or if anyone has had experience with
this kind of problem, I would greatly appreciate the help!

Richard
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It really depends on your error. I suspect it is a simple problem unless
the partition was actually deleted. Please go to Disk Managment and post
what you see so someone can give you a answer. You need to give as much
info as possible.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
Because my boss was jumping down my skin over getting this machine running
for who knows what purpose, I have no deleted the partition, reverted it
back to a basic disk, and formatted it. The drive is now working okay.
However, before I did all this, I captured some screen shots so that I might
be able to understand how I messed this up in the first place.

As I described earlier, I converted the primary disk to dynamic. Then I
converted the secondary disk to dynamic. I then created a simple volume on
the secondary disk. The only problem is that I didn't like the drive letter
given to the second disk. This is when I messed it all up.

This morning, I started the process again. I have Disk0 as dynamic and
healthy. Disk1 isn't even physically connected. I then power down, connect
Disk1, boot up and hove Disk0 as dynamic and healthy, Disk1 is dynamic and
foreign. I then import Disk1. The screen indicates that I have a simple
volume with a data condition of OK.

After the import, I am then with a screen that shows Disk1 as dynamic and
offline, with the simple volume as failed. At this point, there is nothing
that I can do with it. So I then reboot the machine so that the changes take
effect.

At the reboot, I am presented with a bluescreen that states along these
lines:
IRQL Not Less Or Equal
8042DD4C Base At 80400000 DateStamp 3ee6c002 ntoskrnl.exe

And then there is a lot of other information that I was unable to gather at
the time.

So, I then pull Disk1 and reboot. The machines boots normally. When I go
into Disk Management, it shows Disk1 as dynamic and missing. I deleted the
volume, converted the disk to basic, created a new partition, formatted
NTFS, rebooted, and now I have a good disk partition. So, I don't know what
I did or how I did it. But somehow in trying to change the drive letters, I
messed something up. So, any information anyone can give would be much
appreciated. If the screen shots would help, I can attach those as well.

Richard
 
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