Upgrading to dynamic disks

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Steve Jenkins

I've got a server with two drives, C & D. Both got data/applications
on. I'd like to upgrade them to dynamic disks - is there a chance of
data loss?

I have heard that there might be .....
Cheers Steve.
 
To assume there is *always* a chance of data loss no matter what you do is
not unreasonable.

I would rather have a backup and don't need it rather than not have a backup
and need one.

Do a backup first.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Steve Jenkins said:
I've got a server with two drives, C & D. Both got data/applications
on. I'd like to upgrade them to dynamic disks - is there a chance of
data loss?

I have heard that there might be .....
Cheers Steve.
Click to expand...

We've been contacted numerous times after people performed an upgrade to
Dynamic disks which resulted in the disks being 'unpartitioned', so empty.
In all cases it was purely a partition table issue. Our tool DiskPatch can
make the upgrade more safe:

See http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/backupmbr.htm right column
bottom item "Performing a safe upgrade of a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk".

And even after a successful upgrade DiskPatch can be used as an extra
safeguard allowing it to back up the MBR and the LDM, such a backup will be
useful in case of MBR and LDM corruption and after accidental loss or
deletion of individual volumes.

Note: Of course a 'full backup' is always wise as well.

Kind regards,
Joep

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OK, so the current situation on the server actually is:

- C drive: 16MB FAT partition. 16.93GB NTFS partition (boot
partition).
- E drive: 34.41GB - already dynamic disk (coloured kind of
green/brown).

I didn't set this machine up, so I've no idea why there is a 16MB FAT
partition.

So - if I upgrade the C drive to a dynamic disk, what will happen to
the two partitions?

Thanks Steve.
 
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