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| | Dynamic disks suddenly offline in Windows Vista (can't reactivate) Hi all first post and believe it or not. After much searching I cant believe how little information there is available regarding recovering from Windows Vista Dynamic disk offline invalid state. aside from those money (free trial, just give us your email & credit card) whores over at experts-exchange.com ofcorse but thats another rant I'll save for a later date. The STORY: I have a very Media hungry family, Every Room has a DLNA compatible player in it. I recently purchased 4 x 1TB Drives to consolidate the data across three computers to my Vista Business machine. Figuring 2TB drives will be out next year and I'll be rebuilding anyway I decided to give Vista Dynamic Spanned disks a try. And so the 4TB took 2 days to format, and 2 Days top copy all the MP3's, Movies, to this central location. Day 5, I rebooted my computer a couple times to test and on reboot #2 sure enough the Dynamic Spanned 4TB Array that I had built vanished! After many M$ related explositivities, and in the midst of my preparation for hari kari, it came to me. GOOGLE IT! Disks 2,3,4, & 5 are 4 x 1TB Western Digital's The spanned volume is now stuck in an Offline Invalid status, and any attempt to Reactivate any of the disks result in the all to familiar Operation Invalid error. The Question: (That should be in help, BUT IS NOT!) How to reactivate a spanned Dynamic VOLUME that is in Offline / Invalid state. ScreenSHOT: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?...e=post&id=5379 |
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| | RE: Dynamic disks suddenly offline in Windows Vista (can't reactivate) Just to remind you this is Vista Business, and HELP!!!!!!!!! |
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