Would a SATA be seen by Windows Explorer if formated as "basic"

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Well
you know, there are two hard disk formats that microsoft is pushing.
Basic and dynamic hard disks.

If a SATA disk is formated as basic, would it be seen as a
Didk E: (for example) if you just hook the hard disk into an
old Win XP Pro machine with the traditional ATA as the boot disk (C:)?

I doubt it from my short trial experience for now.
I mean that such a SATA disk should only be formated as "Dynamic"
and be treated as Hot-pluggable, just like a USB memor, if it is not
designated as the booting disk.

Just try to copy an encrypted file into the USB memory,
Did you succeed?

Thanks.

Hugh
 
Well you know, there are two hard disk formats that
microsoft is pushing. Basic and dynamic hard disks.
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Not so much pushing as offering.
If a SATA disk is formated as basic, would it be seen as a Didk
E: (for example) if you just hook the hard disk into an old Win
XP Pro machine with the traditional ATA as the boot disk (C:)?
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Yes. If the hardware supports SATA drives.

Basic/Dynamic has nothing to do with the physical drive being seen.
I doubt it from my short trial experience for now.
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You've gotten confused.
I mean that such a SATA disk should only be formated as "Dynamic"
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Thats just plain wrong.
and be treated as Hot-pluggable, just like a USB
memor, if it is not designated as the booting disk.
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And that is too.
Just try to copy an encrypted file into the USB memory,
Did you succeed?
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Separate issue entirely.
 
Rod said:
Not so much pushing as offering.




Yes. If the hardware supports SATA drives.

Basic/Dynamic has nothing to do with the physical drive being seen.




You've gotten confused.




Thats just plain wrong.
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Thanks for the reply.

I, too, wish I am wrong.

Would you please tell me how to make a SATA disk as basic without
starting the XP installation from scratch?

On an IDE-bootable system, I right-clicked on "My Computer" and
"Manage", etc. The option for NTFS-formating after choosing basic
is not available on a new unformatted SATA hard disk.
So, I was not able to get the partition showing up in Windows Explorer.
The reason why I was trying to make it "basic" is because I wanted
to make it a bootable disk eventually by going through repair mode
under Windows XP installation.

Only when I made the disk "dynamic", the eventual partition showed up
as E: in Windows Explorer.
Is this behavior then "driver"-dependent? Mine is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
motherboard with
built-in Si???'s SATA controller with the latest driver (from MS driver
update site) of course.


Thanks.

Hugh
 
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If a SATA disk is formated as basic, would it be seen as a
Didk E: (for example) if you just hook the hard disk into an
old Win XP Pro machine with the traditional ATA as the boot disk (C:)?
Click to expand...

Yes, as long as the parallel interface is first in the boot order (as it
usually is).
I doubt it from my short trial experience for now.
I mean that such a SATA disk should only be formated as "Dynamic"
and be treated as Hot-pluggable, just like a USB memor, if it is not
designated as the booting disk.
Click to expand...

Why? There's no difference between basic and dynamic volumes WRT
hot-pluggable devices. They both have to be stopped before you unplug them.
The main thing you get with dynamic volumes is the ability to span, stripe,
and mirror disks, and those are capabilities that are more useful with
permanently-installed drives.

Dynamic volumes also aren't compatible with non-Win32 OSen. I can set up a
FireWire HD, a USB memory dongle, or whatever as a basic volume with a FAT32
partition, and it'll be readable/writable under Linux and (I think) Mac OS
X, as well as WinWhatever.

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