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Boot prob after conv to dynamic dis
Name: chrishz Date: September 2, 2005 at 14:42:03 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Server CPU/Ram: P4/1024
Comment:
Hi,
After upgrading two IDE drives from basic to dynamic disks, Windows 2000 Server won't boot anymore. I tried Diskpart.exe, but this utility shows the boot disk (Maxtor 40GB) as unformatted and the secondary disk (Maxtor 80GB) as "inaccessible".
I also tried to repair this situation with the Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM, but it said the same as Diskpart. I thought it was safe to upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk, even if used to boot from?
Do any of you have any tips/suggestions? I'm all out of ideas...
Name: wizard-ict Date: September 4, 2005 at 07:19:51 Pacific
Reply:
Yes it is safe I do it all the time, by the sounds of it you have just been unlucky and something has been corrupted during the conversion. Can you boot using a Win2k Boot floppy? Or try fixboot in the recovery console. If the disks remain inaccessable you have little choice but to reinstall and restore from your backup (I'm sure you have a current backup!)
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