Note: The DIR /Q option doesn't work either on Dynamic Disks. This option idetifies folder/file ownership.

troyboy14k 5/18/2004 4:45:24 PM

HA HA HA ... I was playing with dynamic disks when I bought my scond 80GB HD, so I decided to convert my old one to a Dynamic disk and JOIN both HD in one single 160GB monster ... just for fun, after all, there is "always" UNDO in windows right? NOOOT !!!

I discovered it too late, if you want to split back your 2 HDs you will have to delete all your DATA first (nice move MS). Sure it's easy for one at HOME to backup 100GB+ DATA on floppy/ZIP/CD-R? NOOOT !!!!

I will have to live with it until one of the disks fail. At that moment I would have lost not only the data on the failed disk, but ALL DATA in ALL HD joined together.

Garbage ... definitely not for home use ... :¨(

Julio Porras 9/26/2002 8:22:43 AM

Dynamic Disk Disaster...

Maybe it's because I'm comfortable with NT... Maybe it's because I didn't research it properly, but simple mirroring became an extremely stressful task on a W2K server.
This IBM Netfinity had a Systems Data Partition (not visible from Windows) a boot partition, and a data partition. After "changing" the disk from Basic to Dynamic, the Systems Partition became visible, the Boot partition was changed to "drive D" and the Data Partition disappeared.
A call to IBM told me I must delete the system partition and that the data in the Data Drive was probably gone. (No big deal; it was backed up...) Deleting the System Data Partition and the Data Partition caused the Boot partition to come up as drive I (We have 5 CDs). I had to kill all partitions, create just the small boot partition, and re-install W2K. And just incidently killing the trust relationships with the other W2K computers in the network.

Ouch.

Probably just didn't have a clue as to what I should have done.

Jerry Wright 2/14/2002 2:07:38 PM