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Josh1 Administrator |
posted November 07, 2005 07:07 PM
 
Welcome, dynamic disk you can span volumes onto other volumes. You should be able to right click the same area and convert to dynamic disk, here is more information http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343/EN-US You will not gain any more access time by converting to Dynamic disk. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted November 07, 2005 06:30 PM
That worked great thanks, I was wondering though, when you right click on the drive number in there, it has an option to make a dynamic disk. What is a dynamic disk? IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted November 07, 2005 05:25 PM
Alright then they need to be partitioned and formatted. You can right click that area and then partition and then format it, if you need instructions on how to do all of that then let us know. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted November 07, 2005 05:05 PM
I formatted them with the NT file system, and don't even see them as one big drive. I've never partitioned my drives into several smaller drives, they all just had the 8Mb partition that I think Windows sets up, because that 8Mb of space I was never able to see at all. From disk management it does show my drives in the lower portion of the screen where it has a disk number then that long blue or black bar next to it, but it doesn't have the missing drives listed above with my C drive and DVD drive. What it says in the lower part next to the drives is a disk number the size of each drive, they all say they're online, next to disk 0 (c) it has the volume label of 'C' says its NTFS, its healthy and that it's the system disk. But next to drive 1 and 2 (the missing ones)it doesn't show a file system or that they are healthy, just the size, that it's online, and says it's unallocated. Thanks IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted November 07, 2005 02:52 PM
What file system did you format them as? Can you see them as one big drive, not multiple partitions? If you right click my computer, then go to manage then go to disk management, what do you see and what kind of partitions are you drives? ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted November 07, 2005 02:01 PM
I just wiped clean all 3 of my drives last weekend just as a routine maintenance. I reformatted the 2 backup drives through windows then deleted the partitions on them with the installation disk. The new installation went fine, but now windows can't see my other 2 drives. The BIOS sees them just fine, I think it has something to do with deleting the partitions, but I don't know how to get them back. Can you help, Thanks IP: Logged |
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