.. you're right. Don't know what I was thinking other
than it's early and I haven't had the 1st cup. You
can't extend volumes. Is this a Compaq server or
workstation with the OEM area? I know you might
have problems due to this.
Kent
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
> > 3111 C Street, Suite 300
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