Absolutely, I have encountered no problems with the drive in the BIOS and
using a boot disc partitioner, I have confirmed that it's NTFS formatted
and
working just fine.
So the really wierd question is why is Vista trying to tell me that a)
it's
dynamic when it is not and b) why it's invalid when it works in XP
:
Does the drive appear normally in your BIOS?
I am in the same boat as the topic creator. Where my hard drive (the
one
in
which no OS is installed), shows up as offline and cannot be
reactivated
within Disk Management. I had attempted the below solution before
reading
this and can assure you it does not work. Problem is that it's not
simply
listed as offline within DiskPart but as "invalid". Thus an error
message
occurs when trying to online the disk drive because it is invalid.
I have yet to discover a solution to this problem that does not require
backing up and formatting the hard drive, which is something I'd hate
to
do.
If anybody can come up with an answer, it would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry, nibbley, but that one just didn't work.
:
Here is the best I can come up with
Go to the command prompt and try this:
1.. Type:
diskpart
2.. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
list disk
Make note of the disk number of the disk that you want to bring
online.
3.. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
select disk n
4.. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
online
where "n" is the dynamic disk
Cheers this is the best that I have.
Chuck
Ok. If you look at this brief article describing basic and dynamic
disks,
it says it applies to all versions of Vista.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/4605a967-060a-490e-808b-f20438f621ce1033.mspx
I can't find a definite answer.
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No documentation - personal experience with RTM versions.
Any actual documentation on this? From the limited info I could
find
on
the subject it looked like all versions of Vista support dynamic
disks.
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You did not load Ultimate or one of the business versions of
Vista,
right? Only Ultimate or business vista knows how to access a
dynamic
drive...even though you are allowed to create one with XP MCE...
Ned
I have a dual boot configuration of XP and Vista, with each OS on
their own respective HDD's. I also have a 3rd HDD that has all
of
my
media documents on it. Through XP, that media drive is linked
to
[My
Documents]. But when I try to access that drive in Vista, it
is
listed as Offline. When I right-click on it in Computer
Management,
my only options are Convert to Basic, Properties and Help.
Obviously I don't want to have to change the drive to Basic as
I'll
lose my files, but why is it that Vista won't recognize it as
being
online when it's Dynamic? Is it because it's already linked to
My
Documents through my XP setup?
Anyone know of a solution here that doesn't involve reformatting
the
media drive?
Thanks!
