RE: Dynamic Disks FreeBSD

[Ivailo Tanusheff]

AFAIK it's impossible. The problem is that Micro$oft writes their own
MBR. Although I think there are some distributions that can mount such
drive, you can't boot different OS from this disk (yet).
But still you can revert dynamic disk to basic from Disk administration
utility in Windows 2000/XP.

Regards,
Ivailo Tanusheff

 


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Subject: Dynamic Disks  FreeBSD

Is it at all possible to use FreeBSD on hard disks that have been
converted from basic to dynamic?  I have two hard drives and have used
Windows XP Professional to convert both to dynamic.

Stephen (IST 225)
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RE: Dynamic Disks FreeBSD

[Jud]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:35:20 +0300, Ivailo Tanusheff
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[snip]
 But still you can revert dynamic disk to basic from Disk administration
 utility in Windows 2000/XP.

You will want to take an image of the drive(s) or otherwise backup
desired apps and data beforehand.  In Win2K, reversion from dynamic to
basic disks is a data-destructive process.  Has that changed in XP?

Jud
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