dynamic disk

  1. Windows 7 Windows 7 software raid problems...

    Hi. First, sorry for long post but I want to give you as much details as possible before asking my questions :-) I've two 1 TB disk running in raid 1 (2 partitions, both mirrored) under Windows 7 Ultimate. Its clean install on new computer. System was installed on single disk and then both...
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    Windows 7 C drive is marked as inactive?

    ============================================================== sorry, i was wrong, ignore the tilte please, because i not using english OS at the time, so i directly translated the message, but the actuall mesage is: The selected volume is on a dynamic disk when i select the location to...
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    Windows 7 big problem at making new partition

    hello i have a new laptop yesterday but there are one drive c: (500 gb) to add a new partition i have shrink drive c to 250 GB and i have now 250 GB unallocated space when i create a new simple volume at this unallocated space i have this message before formatting "the operation you selected...
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    Windows 7 Creating new drive to hdd after conversion to basic disk from dynamic disk

    I'm having problems creating new partitions on my hdd fro munused space I have on my disk. It is bit long story but I hope somebody reads it and knows how to help me. I got a new Acer computer (with Windows 7) which had 1 TB hdd. In the hdd there were C- (~500 GB), D (~500 GB)-drives and this...
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    Windows 7 Win7 not recognizing additional drives

    Hi all, I just built my first computer - I'll try to be as detailed as possible, but if I miss something please feel free to ask. I am using an ASUS P7P55D-E Motherboard, Intel X25M 80gb SSD, and a WD 1Tb HDD. I do not have an optical drive, so I installed Win7 + ran other installation CDs...
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    Windows 7 Never let Win7 manage your freshly formatted Hard Drives.

    Well Well, Let me explain my experience of Disk Management in Windows 7! To start off I ordered a brand new hard drive, installed it into my pc. I booted up win7 "at the time with the current hard drive I was using for win7" , at first windows 7 recognized the new drive but asking for "Win7" to...
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    Windows 7 Dynamic disk and Mirrors

    I recently installed Windows 7 (32 bit on x 64 system) with 2 x 1 TB hard drives (one Western Digital drive + one Hitachi drive) so that I could mirror them with raid 1. When I checked disk management I saw that both HD's were formatted as basic disks but need to be dynamic disks to mirror. I...
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    Windows 7 Dynamic disk problem. Win 7

    I recently installed Windows 7 with 2 x 1 TB hard drives so that I could mirror them with raid 1. When I checked disk management I saw that both HD's were formatted as basic disks but need to be dynamic disks to mirror. I converted both the primary and secondary HD's to dynamic through DOS...
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    Windows 7 Can you convert Windows 7 boot partition into a dynamic disk?

    Hello, I want to setup a Raid 1 mirror from one drive to another using Windows software raid. I know in XP you could not do this on the boot partition (C drive). Is it possible to do this in Windows 7? Thanks
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    Windows 7 Dynamic Disk Invalid

    I've been using Windows 7 for a while now but all the sudden I'm having an issue with one of my Hard Drives. I have a 320gig SATA as my primary system drive, a 500gig SATA data drive (this one is set to 'dynamic') and then an 120gig ATA drive (That I currently have no data on yet.) For a...
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    Windows Vista Dynamic Dsik not booting after conversion

    I have installed VISTA Business on my Computer on a 500gb SATA HDD. Yesterday I resized the partitions using VISTA partition manager. In the process the setup changed to dynamic disk. I am a newbie to vista. After I rebooted the syetem I find thesystem looking out bootable media. But using...
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    Windows 7 SATA drive won't go online

    Hi everybody. Great to be part of this community. I have a problem with a Maxtor 6L200M0 SATA drive in Vista. Just installed the OS and the drive is not recognised in Computer. Disk management says that the drive is there but offline (small red arrow next to drive symbol). The drive is dynamic...