.. your memory is correct. And there is no way to
revert to basic without starting from scratch. I
hope you have backups.
Kent
--- "McConnell, Derek W. - Perot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If memory serves me correctly... your boot drive
> cannot be a dynamic disk
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Martin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:46 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic disk
> to dynamic disk
>
>
> Ok, the lack of Windows 2000 training is definitely
> noticeable in this
> problem....
>
> I have an old clone box (PII 450, 256mb RAM, 2
> maxtor 10gb IDE Drives). I
> recently had a guy who was working for me for about
> a month, upgrade this
> box from NT 4 to Win2k pro for II5. This kid created
> a great intranet site
> for us. Everything was working ok until I started
> poking around. I noticed
> the kid created a single 4gb ntfs partition and just
> left the remaining disk
> space untouched. I wanted to to create a spanned
> volume set using the rest
> of the disk space on disk 0 and disk 1. To do this,
> I found that I had to
> upgrade them to Dynamic disks before hand. Well, I
> upgraded the 2nd disk, no
> problem. Updated the 1st disk with the boot
> partition and then rebooted as
> instructed. Upon boot up, I see the following occur:
>
> Searching for boot record from floppy... Not Found
> Searching for boot record from CD-Rom... Not Found
> Searching for boot record from IDE-0... OK
> Boot failure from previous device
>
> Boot failure
> Insert BOOT diskette in A:
> Press any key when ready (I put in my just-created
> windows 2000 boot disk)
>
> Searching for boot record from floppy... OK
>
> Windows 2000 setup begins.....
>
> Then I receive: File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be
> loaded.
> The error code is 7.
> Setup cannot continue. Press
> any key to Exit.
>
>
> The process then begins all over again. So what are
> my options? I'd rather
> not blow this machine away since I don't have a
> backup of the current
> Intranet site. The server was just finalized late
> last night. This kid that
> created the site has copies on his laptop, but he's
> on his way back to North
> Carolina.
>
> So far I haven't found anything relative to
> upgrading dynamic disks but I'm
> still searching. Thanks in advance for any help
> y'all can provide.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean Martin, MCSE
> Network Administrator
> Ribelin Lowell & Company
> Insurance Brokers, Inc.
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