Want to avoid 750Sata Disk coming in as disk 0

[Guest nesredep egrob]

I have bought a 750GB Sata WD disk to store some of the video I am working on at

the moment. When I open up Disk Management I see the disk is there as disk 0 and

that it is a dynamic disk.

 

I cannot remember how to sort out that problem. I was wanting the disk to be

partitioned in 5 seperate logical drives to continue after logical G.

 

I can really use some help here.

As you can guess I have installed the drive and used the W2000 disk to get to

where you press F6, where I used the floppie Raid to install the driver. From

there I dropped out of the installation using F3 all of which is fairly

standard.

 

Help Please

 

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Want to avoid 750Sata Disk coming in as disk 0

 

 

"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message

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>I have bought a 750GB Sata WD disk to store some of the video I am working

>on at

> the moment. When I open up Disk Management I see the disk is there as disk

> 0 and

> that it is a dynamic disk.

>

> I cannot remember how to sort out that problem. I was wanting the disk to

> be

> partitioned in 5 seperate logical drives to continue after logical G.

>

> I can really use some help here.

> As you can guess I have installed the drive and used the W2000 disk to get

> to

> where you press F6, where I used the floppie Raid to install the driver.

> From

> there I dropped out of the installation using F3 all of which is fairly

> standard.

>

> Help Please

>

> Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

 

If your question is about drive letters then it's easily answered:

Run diskmgmt.msc from the Start/Run box, then change the

letters as required.

[Guest nesredep egrob]

Re: Want to avoid 750Sata Disk coming in as disk 0

 

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:19:20 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote:

>

>"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message

>news:o4am93h4dtipe6uprvnpuetjam5glh80be@4ax.com...

>>I have bought a 750GB Sata WD disk to store some of the video I am working

>>on at

>> the moment. When I open up Disk Management I see the disk is there as disk

>> 0 and

>> that it is a dynamic disk.

>>

>> I cannot remember how to sort out that problem. I was wanting the disk to

>> be

>> partitioned in 5 seperate logical drives to continue after logical G.

>>

>> I can really use some help here.

>> As you can guess I have installed the drive and used the W2000 disk to get

>> to

>> where you press F6, where I used the floppie Raid to install the driver.

>> From

>> there I dropped out of the installation using F3 all of which is fairly

>> standard.

>>

>> Help Please

>>

>> Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

>

>If your question is about drive letters then it's easily answered:

>Run diskmgmt.msc from the Start/Run box, then change the

>letters as required.

>

No I have handled that badly. But thanks for the help. I took exception to the

fact that the disk was disk0, I had expected it to be disk2 as I already have 0

and 1. More to the point was a question about signature and a mention of Dynamic

disk that worried me. However eventually I clicked OK on that and that was the

end of trouble. The disk turned out to be Basic as I had wanted. I sorted the

letters from Settings etc.

Eventually I shall fit another disk of like size. I presume to have a Raid array

0 that I shall have to convert the first disk to dynamic?. The idea I have about

that is that one disk should become the working disk and the other an automatic

backup, am I right. If not I shall have to do some more reading on that subject.

 

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia