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More info?)
Hi, Monika.
If your Disk Management is set up like mine (the Volume List on top and the
Graphical View at the bottom), you should see the list of hard drives down
the left side of the Graphical View. Note that these are listed by NUMBER
(Disk 0 and Disk 1), not by Letter (C:, D:, etc.). To the right of each
Disk # box should be one or more graphical boxes representing the volumes
(primary partitions and logical drives) on that disk. As I'm sure you know,
"drive" letters are misnamed; a letter applies only to a volume on the
physical drive, not to the whole disk, even if it has only a single volume
using all the space on the disk.
If you right-click on the Disk 0 box, you should see the context menu you
mentioned, with "Convert to Dynamic Disk..." as the first option. A
right-click on a Volume box produces a different context menu which does not
include the dynamic disk option.
But your first message also said,
"After the reinstall, my slave (D drive) wasn't assicned a drive letter.
It's
visible and listed as 'Healthy (Active), (baxic, NTFS) it even gives me the
volume name. Prior to the reformat/reinstall it was working fine. "
Something wrong here. Disk Management shows some status labels for the HD
itself (Basic and the size of the whole physical disk); these should be on
the far left in the Disk # box. Other labels (Healthy, Active, System, Page
File, etc., plus NTFS and the size of the volume) show the "substatus" of
volumes on the disk; these should be in the boxes to the right of the Disk #
box. There should be a separate set of labels for each volume. Of the ones
you mentioned, "Basic" should be in the Disk # box; "Healthy" and "Active"
and "NTFS" should be in a volume box; they should NOT all be in the same
box!
There's a LOT of information available in the Help file reached from Disk
Management; use the Contents and follow the Related Topics links to read it.
As the Help file explains, only one of the "substatus" labels, Active,
System, Boot or Page File, can be displayed, so, "For example, if you have
only one volume which serves as the boot volume, system volume, active
volume, page file, and crash dump, its status is displayed as Healthy
(System)."
Do you see Disk 1 listed? What does it show in the Volumes area of the
Graphical Display for that disk?
Your reinstall of WinXP might have made Disk Management think you were
moving your second disk to a different computer, instead of back into the
re-installed original. You might need to read the page on "To move disks to
another computer" in the Help file, under How to...Manage disks.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Monika" <Monika@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02E60813-E771-4AD3-AB8D-EB09F573CDA8@microsoft.com...
> Hi Richard,
>
> I've right clicked on every area I can think of, the only options I get
> are
> to partition the drive or make it a dynamic disc. I've screen captured it
> all
> but there seems to be nowhere to upload the images so I can show you. Is
> there anywhere I an send them to you so you have an idsea of what I'm
> talking
> about?
>
> The disc was never removed to cause the cable to bend or come loose. (I
> only
> disconnected it later in the futile hope that XP would recognide the drive
> again when reconected.... zip!). I didn't mention before that the slave
> drive
> is a seagate baracuda 80G and the Masteris a smasung 120G. Ive reformatted
> in
> the past with no problem (and with the same drives).
>
> The only other solution I can think of is to remove the slave and make it
> an
> external drive, which defeats the purpose of having a slave drive and less
> mess on an already messy work area.
>
> Thankyouso far for your help. Any other ideas I can try?
>
> cheers
> Monika
>
> "Richard Urban [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Monika,
>>
>> There are three different areas within disk management where you can
>> right
>> click on a drive/partition and you will see substantially different
>> options.
>> If you click on the left of the window in the drive area (drive 1, drive
>> 2
>> etc) you will see options to work with the entire drive.
>>
>> If you right click on a partition/drive in the upper pane or the lower
>> window you will see different options.
>>
>> Where are you right clicking and what are your options in each area?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from: George Ankner
>> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>>
>> "Monika" <Monika@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E4276CF4-E72B-4531-A732-8A931CC58AC8@microsoft.com...
>> >I had been forced to reformat my C drive and reinstall XP Pro. All
>> >updates
>> > loaded.
>> >
>> > After the reinstall, my slave (D drive) wasn't assicned a drive letter.
>> > It's
>> > visible and listed as 'Healthy (Active), (baxic, NTFS) it even gives me
>> > the
>> > volume name. Prior to the reformat/reinstall it was working fine.
>> >
>> > When right clicking on the disc, I have only the option of converting
>> > it
>> > to
>> > a 'dynamic disk'. I have physically unplugged the HD and rebooted,
>> > then
>> > reinstalled it manually. have disabled and uninstalled it via windows
>> > .
>> >
>> > I'm at a total loss what to do now. Obviously before the reformat, I
>> > putr
>> > anything of value (such as documents etc) onto D drive. I do not want
>> > to
>> > reformat it,.
>> >
>> > Can anyone rescue me? please?
>> > many thanks
>> > Monika
iskPart In DiskPart,delete the partition on the slave 
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