Dynamic Disk Unreadable

[sorb2008]

Hello..

I have dual boot hard drives one linux and one Win2K
I had space on the winK disk and set this to Dynamic
now I can't boot from either and Linus disk shows
online in disk management but my Win2K say Dynamic
Unreadable. How do I make this read able ??

I tried diskprobe but can't find the system ID type
0X42 to change it back.

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

Can you clarify some things please.

2k hard drive - did/does it have 2 partitions? I didn't think you could make just a partition dynamic - has to be whole drive?

If you now can't boot from either, how can you access disk management?

What are you using as boot manager? (lilo, grub, 3rd party, just changing boot order in bios, something else?)

also curious - did you find out about dynamic disks before you started - like nothing else works with them/can't access them externally (ie, not really a good idea for dual boot machines - in fact IMO, not generally)

 

[sorb2008]

I had two disks one with win2000 pro and another linux FC4.
On win2k I had 20GB total 10GB used and another 10GB free. I needed the other 10GB as I was running low on space.
As I read the only way I could get that space is to make the win2K disk dynamic. Which I did then nothing worked !!
I had to re-install another WIN2K OS and went back in disk
management and it shows "unreadable". Linux disk looks good but won't boot now. Don't know why MS is got this unreadable or even dynamic there if its going to wreck other disks. I had both dual boot disks running good. I've decide to start over and add a 250 GB disk which I needed anyway and I used PC file recovery to get my old files back off theses two small disks. Probaly won't go back to MS for much more advice anymore unless I read every manual first.

 

[wolluf]

So you're ok now?

You could have just created a second partition out of the 10GB free space - but if you wanted a 20GB partition then something like partition magic, or copy the 10GB elsewhere, delete 10GB and create new 20GB, copy back. As I said, dynamic disks don't work with anything else, and their additional features are less than something like partition magic can provide.