Inactivate a dynamic partition?

[Guest David Walker]

How do you inactivate a dynamic partition? The Diskpart program only works

on basic disks.

 

Also, how do you tell which partition(s) are marked Active? I don't see

that info in Disk Management snap-in.

 

This question applies to Windows server 2003 (and Windows Server 2000,

which I am upgrading from).

 

Second, the one time I booted from a floppy (just as an experiment), and

then told the boot loader to load the second partition on disk 0, then

looked at Disk Management: Disk Management still told me that the FIRST

partition on disk 0 was the "system" volume. The second partition was

marked Boot.

 

I can't find exactly what "system" means, or why the first partition on

disk 0 would be marked "system" when I actually booted the computer from

the floppy drive. I would think the floppy would be "system" and the

second partition would be "boot".

 

 

Thanks.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Inactivate a dynamic partition?

 

Hello David,

 

Check out this ones:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/421ca7ff-b4ee-4c34-a91c-c8db08695c7e1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307

 

Also look in the link's at the end of the article

http://www.petri.co.il/difference_between_basic_and_dynamic_disks_in_windows_xp_2000_2003.htm

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> How do you inactivate a dynamic partition? The Diskpart program only

> works on basic disks.

>

> Also, how do you tell which partition(s) are marked Active? I don't

> see that info in Disk Management snap-in.

>

> This question applies to Windows server 2003 (and Windows Server 2000,

> which I am upgrading from).

>

> Second, the one time I booted from a floppy (just as an experiment),

> and then told the boot loader to load the second partition on disk 0,

> then looked at Disk Management: Disk Management still told me that the

> FIRST partition on disk 0 was the "system" volume. The second

> partition was marked Boot.

>

> I can't find exactly what "system" means, or why the first partition

> on disk 0 would be marked "system" when I actually booted the computer

> from the floppy drive. I would think the floppy would be "system" and

> the second partition would be "boot".

>

> Thanks.

>

[Guest David Walker]

Re: Inactivate a dynamic partition?

 

Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in

news:ff16fb66933938ca5a7742338d6a@msnews.microsoft.com:

> Hello David,

>

> Check out this ones:

> http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/421ca7ff-b4ee-

4c

> 34-a91c-c8db08695c7e1033.mspx?mfr=true

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307

>

> Also look in the link's at the end of the article

> http://www.petri.co.il/difference_between_basic_and_dynamic_disks_in_w

i

> ndows_xp_2000_2003.htm

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

> confers no rights.

> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

>

 

Ummm.... those links don't help me AT ALL. I know what the differences

are between basic and dynamic disks. And I am not trying to convert a

basic disk into a dynamic disk! They are already dynamic.

 

I used the term "partition" when I meant to say "volume", since I know

that dynamic disks have volumes instead of partitions.

 

When all disks are dynamic, doesn't the system still boot from the first

"active" volume (to find NTLDR, etc.)? Doesn't the concept of "active"

and "inactive" volumes/partitions still apply to dynamic disks? (The

references you gave me do not mention this.)

 

I wish it was as easy to "inactivate" a disk volume or partition as it

is to activate a partition or volume.

 

Sorry, but those pointers didn't help answer my question.

 

Thanks anyway.

 

David Walker

>> How do you inactivate a dynamic partition? The Diskpart program only

>> works on basic disks.

>>

>> Also, how do you tell which partition(s) are marked Active? I don't

>> see that info in Disk Management snap-in.

>>

>> This question applies to Windows server 2003 (and Windows Server

>> 2000, which I am upgrading from).

>>

>> Second, the one time I booted from a floppy (just as an experiment),

>> and then told the boot loader to load the second partition on disk 0,

>> then looked at Disk Management: Disk Management still told me that

>> the FIRST partition on disk 0 was the "system" volume. The second

>> partition was marked Boot.

>>

>> I can't find exactly what "system" means, or why the first partition

>> on disk 0 would be marked "system" when I actually booted the

>> computer from the floppy drive. I would think the floppy would be

>> "system" and the second partition would be "boot".

>>

>> Thanks.

>>

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