Upgrade to dynamic disk greyed out

[Andy]

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Hi,

I've got a windows 2000 advanced server sp4 with a soft disk mirror (disk0 and disk1), disk1 failed and was replaced with a new one, I've broken the mirror but when I try to convert the new disk1 to dynamic to recreate the mirror, the "upgrade to dynamic disk" option is not available. Any ideas?


Regards,

Andy

 

[Guest]

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Andy

I have seen this happen in two cases. In one, the disk was partitioned from
a pre-Win2000 operating system, not leaving space enough for it to be
converted to dynamic. In the other case, a third party disk management
program was installed on the computer that disabled the option to convert
to dynamic disk.


Best regards

Bjorn
--
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking


"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've got a windows 2000 advanced server sp4 with a soft disk mirror (disk0 and disk1), disk1 failed and was replaced with a new one, I've broken the mirror but when I try to convert the new disk1 to dynamic to recreate the mirror, the "upgrade to dynamic disk" option is not available. Any ideas?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Andy

 

[Andy]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

Solved problem by using diskpart.exe.

 

[Guest]

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Andy

Thanks for coming back and reporting this.

Best regards

Bjorn
--
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking

"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Solved problem by using diskpart.exe.