unreadable dynamic HD when moving from XP to 2000 pro

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Wayne Everhart

Ok all I have a bit of an issue that I can not seem to
get solved. I have a Maxtor 160 gig 7200 rpm HD. When I
moved my HD into my spare windows 2000 pro box I was
unable to import the foreign media. The Drive Manager
shows the drive as unreadable. I can put the same drive
in any of my Windows XP boxes and the media shows up fine
and can be read just as expected. Has anyone else had
this issue. I have not enabled any type of encryption or
compression on this drive. I really need to use this
drive in my 2000 box. Any sugestions would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Wayne said:
Ok all I have a bit of an issue that I can not seem to
get solved. I have a Maxtor 160 gig 7200 rpm HD. When I
moved my HD into my spare windows 2000 pro box I was
unable to import the foreign media. The Drive Manager
shows the drive as unreadable. I can put the same drive
in any of my Windows XP boxes and the media shows up fine
and can be read just as expected. Has anyone else had
this issue. I have not enabled any type of encryption or
compression on this drive. I really need to use this
drive in my 2000 box. Any sugestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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There are a number of items you haven't mentioned:

a) Do you need to keep the data on the drive?

If not, just repartition and reformat the drive after plugging it into
the W2K system. If you do need to keep the data, you may have to store
it temporarily on another system, reformat the drive, then transfer the
data from the other system to the W2K system via a peer-to-peer link.
Depends on whether the issues raised by items b) and c) below have some
easy solution or not.

b) are all your XP systems set up with dynamic disks?
c) is the W2K system set up as a dynamic disk?

If the answers are yes and no, IMO that's your problem. IIRC, dynamic
disks can span two physical drives, but the root drive must also be
dynamic disk. You can convert the HD in the W2K box to dynamic disk, and
then you should be able to read the 2nd HD, but I really don't know if
it matters whether the 2nd HD was formatted by XP or W2K, so I'd find
out about that first. NB that once you've converted to dynamic disk, you
can't go back to basic disk again. (I don't use dynamic disk, as I'm not
convinced that it any real advantages.)

If your W2K system is also set up as dynamic disk, then the issue lies
in some difference between W2K and XP that I don't know about. In that
case, let's hope someone else does.

Good luck!
 
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