as the subject line says. boot and system disk are one and same harddisk 0
partiton 1 -= Drive C...
Vista will not see dynamic harddisk1, my second installed hard drive, which
is a synamic disk.
any dieas why?

"rgh1951" wrote:

> as the subject line says. boot and system disk are one and same harddisk 0
> partiton 1 = Drive C...
> Vista will not see dynamic harddisk1, my second installed hard drive, which
> is a dynamic disk.
> any ideas why?

Typos corrected...

I add that this applies to BOTH Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate...??
Why wouldn't Vista Ultimate recognize a single-partitioned dynamic-disk
second hard drive that XP pro sees and uses with no special configuration?

"rgh1951" wrote:

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> "rgh1951" wrote:
>

> > as the subject line says. boot and system disk are one and same harddisk 0
> > partiton 1 = Drive C...
> > Vista will not see dynamic harddisk1, my second installed hard drive, which
> > is a dynamic disk.
> > any ideas why?

> Typos corrected...

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:08:00 -0800, rgh1951
<rgh1951@xxxxxx> wrote:

>as the subject line says. boot and system disk are one and same harddisk 0
>partiton 1 -= Drive C...
>Vista will not see dynamic harddisk1, my second installed hard drive, which
>is a synamic disk.
>any dieas why?

Try the import foreign disks command in Disk Management.

Originally Posted by rgh1951

as the subject line says. boot and system disk are one and same harddisk 0
partiton 1 -= Drive C...
Vista will not see dynamic harddisk1, my second installed hard drive, which
is a synamic disk.
any dieas why?

Vista won't recognize a Dynamic drive. It will only allow you to convert it to Basic. If you do, you won't find your data there anymore. However, I've used "Active Delete Pro", which will recover the lost data. Better yet, it will allow you to put a "Mini-operating system" on a cd, restart, and transfer all of your data to another drive before you reformat to Basic.

Good luck with it!