QUOTE(jinXxxx @ May 17 2005, 06:10 PM)
my friend had the same prob.
i took his hard disk, put it in my pc, and suprisingly, i could read it....
i backed all the data into my ext hd and passed it back to him.
back home, my friend plugged his hd back into his drive and yet...he couldnt do anything....so he reformatted it...and retrieved his data from my hd.
but i'm curious....why can i read it when he cant?
Dynamic disks can only be used in WinXP Pro and Windows 2000. Windows XP Home, Windows 95, 98 etc cannot use dynamic disks. Search for "dynamic disk" in Google, there're alot of articles about it.i took his hard disk, put it in my pc, and suprisingly, i could read it....
i backed all the data into my ext hd and passed it back to him.
back home, my friend plugged his hd back into his drive and yet...he couldnt do anything....so he reformatted it...and retrieved his data from my hd.
but i'm curious....why can i read it when he cant?
If u need to downgrade from Pro to Home (like me), you need to convert the disk's data back to basic disk.
What I did was I copied out my files from HDD 1 to HDD 2 in WinXP Pro, then used the Disk Management tool to convert HDD 1 to basic disk... then copy everything back. Very mafan. I haven't tested the programs listed earlier, but if they work, use them. It'll make life alot easier.
This post has been edited by lex: Feb 12 2006, 06:33 PM