Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to recover my system? Thanks, qwerty
"qwerty" wrote in message news:%23v5H814tIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a > dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a > different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard > shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to > recover my system? No... don't fool with dynamic disks. As to your machine that won't boot try running chkdsk /r from the repair console
What happens when you try? -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "qwerty" wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a > dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a > different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard > shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to > recover my system? > > Thanks, > > qwerty
philo wrote: > "qwerty" wrote in message > news:%23v5H814tIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if it is possible to change the active partition on a >> dynamic drive? Also, I was doing a defrag on one of my drives on a >> different PC (not dynamic) and it died/locked up. I had to do a hard >> shut down. Now my pc will not boot up. Is there anything I can do to >> recover my system? > > > > No... > don't fool with dynamic disks. > > > As to your machine that won't boot > > try running chkdsk /r from the repair console > > Thanks, I'll try it.
Dave Patrick wrote: > What happens when you try? > > It no longer has the option, I guess that answers my question. The reason I asked was, I am trying to restore a hard drive from an old machine to a new one. The old machine has 2 partitions that are simple dynamic. The PC has the system files on drive C (ntldr.exe, ntdetect.com, bootini) but the boot files are on drive D ( winnt, system volume info. The C drive is the active partition. I've tried doing a repair install on the new PC and used a Emer. repair disk with the setup.log pointing to the correct partitions but it always fails. I was wondering if it because the old drives were setup as dynamic or is it because I'm using an upgrade CD for the repair process instead of a full install CD (Win 2000 Pro). What do you think?
You might give this a go to recover your data. http://irecover.diy-datarecovery-nl.qarchive.org/ -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "qwerty" wrote: > It no longer has the option, I guess that answers my question. The > reason I asked was, I am trying to restore a hard drive from an old > machine to a new one. The old machine has 2 partitions that are simple > dynamic. The PC has the system files on drive C (ntldr.exe, > ntdetect.com, bootini) but the boot files are on drive D ( winnt, system > volume info. The C drive is the active partition. I've tried doing a > repair install on the new PC and used a Emer. repair disk with the > setup.log pointing to the correct partitions but it always fails. I was > wondering if it because the old drives were setup as dynamic or is it > because I'm using an upgrade CD for the repair process instead of a full > install CD (Win 2000 Pro). What do you think?
