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Okay, we've all heard the apocryphal stories about problems with server drives configured as "Dynamic", but the ability to make changes without having to reboot is clearly beneficial.
I'm adding a second disk, a RAID1 virtual disk, hardware managed, to...
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The one thing that may be a minor issue for some is that accessing... .
Unless you need a dynamic disk for to use software RAID, I am not sure why you would use one, and so I have used dynamic disks, I have never had any issues.
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Hi, I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 Ent server running with a C: drive and dynamic disk raid 1 Z: drive. The Z: drive mirrors two identical 1TB drives (same manufacturer, model number, and size - HDS721010KLA330). Amongst other things, the Z: drive holds...
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Formatted a new FS on the disk that showed drive it may be the....
With dynamic disk, and my hard drive is actually okay and functioning proper? Or should I still replace and left the 'healthy' disk as the original drive letter.
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Some time ago (the last time I had to care about this was a few years back), booting a PC worked kind of like this:
There was an ORDER to disks (primary Master, primary slave, secondary master & slave) The PC would take them in order, and look for an ...
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If your disks are of similar size, i would recommend firing up a copy of rescuelinux and perform of=/dev/sdb
( assuming sda == old drive, and sdb == new drive )
The disk also has "dd_rescue" which can "copy around" disk errors better....
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What is the best way to resize partitions on a server with a Dynamic Disk? I have 4 volumes in what appears to be 2 partitions. I have ghosted each of these volumes to separate image files. I will need to have the drive letters remain the same when the...
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I would like to use easeus partition master to copy the dynamic disk to the basic disk Windows Server....
The dynamic disk to the basic disk directly, although it takes less time, but there is high risk of data loss.
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Hello, everyone.
One of our servers has died recently. So I've took those disks from it and installed them all to the new server running Windows Server 2008. Along with disks I've moved two simple two-port controllers on a Silicon Image SiI 3132 chip....
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The two main candidatesIf you right-click on the "Foreign" disks, do you have the option to "Reactivate" or "Import" the disks? It looks like that's the....
I'm sure the command to "Reactivate" a dynamic disk is just as easy.
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My setup:
- vSphere 5
- File Server VM running Windows 2008 R2
- (D: Data Drive) GPT formatted 2TB vmdk disks x8 configured as spanned dynamic disks inside windows.
- (C: OS Drive) MBR formatted 100GB vmdk disk
I understand FLR is not supported on dynamic...
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I have searched the forum for....
Thanks! Awesome are FLR wizard support for dynamic disks part of the roadmap?
Thanks
Sandee Yes, it is.
However, dynamic disks are still not supported by FLR wizards.
For GPT disks in v6.
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I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported.
Is there a way to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing data...
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Essentially, if TestDisk can detect your dynamic disk's partitions, it mayThere seem to be ways .....
Here are instructions on non-destructively converting dynamic disks to basic detailed instructions.
You might want to keep.
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Disclaimer: These problems apply to software iSCSI, not hardware host bus adapters.
As people may have noticed, this is a rather sensitive issue. Microsoft's "dynamic disk" layout subsystem has the habit of offlining a disk if there is a SINGLE failed...
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Getting them to change from Dynamic disks is going to be a problem though!
Could you please post iSCSI HBA for use of dynamic disks in Windows Server 2008R2? Just use vmware with iSCSI and a VM with dynamic disks....
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I screwed up my hard drive using Disk Management in Windows 7 because i accidentally converted my entire hard drive basic to dynamic. I tried tweaking it around to regain the Basic state, but failed.
Now I can't even boot Windows. Is there a way for me...
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I find....
If Windows won't boot, you will need to boot from CD ? for help .
You can access it either through WinPE or the recovery command prompt:
Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk .
You to delete dynamic disks.
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In windows is it possible to know what kind of disk we are dealing with from a c/c++ program? forget about gpt or mbr, how to know whether it is basic or dynamic? Program input can be drive letter or any info related to disk, output should be dynamic ...
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The DeviceIoControl() method%28VS.85%29.aspx
Detecting....
So if a drive has a partion with LDM information on it, then it's going to be a dynamic disk.
Is Basic or Dynamic, however all dynamic disks will have LDM Information.
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