Dynamic disk on laptop?

[rifleman]

I'm doing MCSA on laptops 'cos I live in a VERY small cottage with no room for desktops. Is there a way of fooling W2K into thinking it's on a desktop instead of a laptop so I can do the practice with dynamic disks?

thanks

Gordon

 

[butchrecon]

As far as I know you can upgrade nay drive to Dynamic. Even a laptop drives. Have you tried upgrading the drive? James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[rifleman]

this is very strange. I have two laptops. A Toshiba portege 7020 that had a 2GB Active partition and a 4GB NTFS partition with a clean install. In Disk management under Storage, when I right-click Disk0, there was NO option to upgrade to dynamic disk. My other laptop, a Tecra 9000 with 10GB partition and a clean install, when I right-clicked on Disk0, came up with "Upgrade to dynamic disk". I re-formatted the disk on the Portege to a single active partition and re-installed W2K. STILL no option to upgrade to dynamic disk. Any thoughts as to why both systems should be different?