Ryetronics

Doug,

This happened to me as well. I ended up dumping all the data on an
external drive for backup, then converting to Basic. I posed the same
question to a number of forums and never received a response, but
after some lengthy research via Google, I came to the understanding
that having Dynamic drives just limits what you can do with it. All
of my drives are Basic now, they work the same as they did before, and
all are compatible with Vista.

So I hope you have a spare HD for backup purposes lying around,
because if you do convert to Basic, you will lose your data.


On Feb 26, 11:11 am, ddwebb <ddw...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Ok, confused.
> I put Vista on my system that was running XP and I had 3 internal hard
> drives. 2 showed just fine and the 3rd which was used for backup was not to
> be seen. Look into the Disk Mgr and I can see it but when I right click on
> it, it gives me the option to Convert to Basic Disk, Properties and Help.
> I dont really want to loose the data that was/is on that drive and if I do a
> Convert to Basic Disk, wont that loose the data?
> What actually is Convert to Basic Disk mean?
> My other 2 drives are Dynamic drives.
> So what is the difference between a 'Basic Disk' and a Dynamic disk?
> I have sent a question to Western Digital to see if then have drivers that I
> missed on their site to add to enable the drive rather than wipe it out, so
> far they have not responded.
> doug.w...@qwest.com