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    External disk with Dynamic volume not being recognized

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by surfasb, Sep 7, 2009.

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    I just tried to plug in a harddrive to my external drive interface. The harddrive has a dynamic volume, but it isn't being recognized. I can see it in device manager though. I see the USB to ATA bridge and the Western Digital Harddive. Normally, you would go to Disk Drive Management and Reactivate the disk. The disk does not show up in Disk Drive management. This is on my HP tx2500 laptop running the Win7 RC. The HP runs an AMD RM-70 and there are no chipset drivers as far as I know. I don't think it's the chipset drivers either because I can plug in a harddrive with a simple partition and it works just fine. The external drive interface works just fine under Vista and XP.

    I notice on a desktop running Window 7 RC that I can plug in the external interface and the dynamic volume can be remounted on that computer.
     
    surfasb, Sep 7, 2009
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    Dynamic disks are often only valid on the computer where they were created.
     
    oldgraygeek, Sep 8, 2009
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    Which isn't true.

    I never fixed the problem. I ended up turning it into a basic partition and then back to a dynamic. It works fine now. Go figure.
     
    surfasb, Sep 9, 2009
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    I once used gpartd to mount a dynamic volume and copy off all the data. Trying to use the partition manager to 'change' the disk from dynamic to basic (ntfs) never did work even when I tried to raw-write the media flag bytes.
     
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    I used a hex editor to modify the partition table. There are literally a thousand tutorial out there because it is so ez.
     
    surfasb, Sep 10, 2009
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