Just an FYI
Boot and system partitions. You can upgrade a basic disk containing the
system or active partitions to a dynamic disk. After the disk is
upgraded, these partitions become simple system or active volumes
(after restarting the computer). You cannot mark an existing dynamic
volume as active. You can upgrade a basic disk containing the boot
partition (which contains the Windows 2000 operating system) to a
dynamic disk. After the disk is upgraded, the boot partition becomes a
simple boot volume (after restarting the computer). You cannot upgrade
a disk that contains the system or boot partition if that disk also
contains part of a spanned volume (volume set), striped volume (stripe
set), mirrored volume (mirror set), or RAID-5 volume (stripe set with
parity).
Upgrade failures. If you upgrade a boot disk, or if a volume or
partition is in use on the disk you attempt to upgrade, the computer
must be restarted for the upgrade to succeed. If any of the following
conditions occur, the upgrade can fail after the computer restarts:
If you disconnect all existing dynamic disks while the computer is
restarting.
If you replace a disk or set of disks to be upgraded while the computer
is restarting. (Disk Management detects that the disk has changed and
the upgrade may fail.)
If you change the disk layout of a disk to be upgraded.
If the disk has I/O errors during the upgrade.
Mirroring the boot and system volumes. After you upgrade the disk
containing the boot and system partitions to a dynamic disk, you can
mirror the boot and system volumes onto another dynamic disk. Then, if
the disk containing the boot and system volumes fails, you can start
the computer from the disk containing the mirrors of these volumes. For
more information, see Fixing a boot failure
Jeremiah
-----Original Message-----
From: kentspencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:45 AM
To: ntsysadmin
Cc: kentspencer
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Pro - Changing from basic disk to dynamic disk
.. 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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