Change a Dynamic C: Drive to a Basic Drive imcrobie <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 11/6/2008 7:03:13 AM I have only just installed Vista Business 32 on a Dell Vostro 32 that I purchased second hand. After the install I shrunk the disk but still had a very large c:drive so I followed a prompt that said I would get more space if I changed the drive to Dynamic. I did this and all worked fine until I attempted to reboot and you guessed it..... The machine will now not reboot. When I attempt to rebuild the partition via the Vista install CD I keep going around in a loop with the dynamic drive not changing. Any help on where to from here would be greatly appreciated. By way of my background I work in IT and am comfortable editing he registry etc but sometimes require assistance with Dos type commands as I am not familair with many of them. All my data is on another partition so if I need to trash the c:drive I am not too concerned. -- imcrobie

Re: Change a Dynamic C: Drive to a Basic Drive "philo" <philo[ at ]privacy.net> 11/6/2008 11:08:17 AM "imcrobie" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:b24a722f4c766406b8b3c68801d93227[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > I have only just installed Vista Business 32 on a Dell Vostro 32 that I > purchased second hand. After the install I shrunk the disk but still > had a very large c:drive so I followed a prompt that said I would get > more space if I changed the drive to Dynamic. I did this and all worked > fine until I attempted to reboot and you guessed it..... The machine > will now not reboot. > > When I attempt to rebuild the partition via the Vista install CD I keep > going around in a loop with the dynamic drive not changing. > > Any help on where to from here would be greatly appreciated. > > By way of my background I work in IT and am comfortable editing he > registry etc but sometimes require assistance with Dos type commands as > I am not familair with many of them. All my data is on another > partition so if I need to trash the c:drive I am not too concerned. > Pop the drive into another machine and backup all your data. Confirm all your data are good! Use a utility such as http://www.killdisk.com/ (for example) and delete the entire drive. Now start over and install Vista and partition the drive exactly how you want to. and of course, never again try to use a dynamic disc!

Re: Change a Dynamic C: Drive to a Basic Drive "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> 11/6/2008 11:20:42 AM Hi, This may help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465.aspx -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "imcrobie" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:b24a722f4c766406b8b3c68801d93227[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > I have only just installed Vista Business 32 on a Dell Vostro 32 that I > purchased second hand. After the install I shrunk the disk but still > had a very large c:drive so I followed a prompt that said I would get > more space if I changed the drive to Dynamic. I did this and all worked > fine until I attempted to reboot and you guessed it..... The machine > will now not reboot. > > When I attempt to rebuild the partition via the Vista install CD I keep > going around in a loop with the dynamic drive not changing. > > Any help on where to from here would be greatly appreciated. > > By way of my background I work in IT and am comfortable editing he > registry etc but sometimes require assistance with Dos type commands as > I am not familair with many of them. All my data is on another > partition so if I need to trash the c:drive I am not too concerned. > > > -- > imcrobie

Re: Change a Dynamic C: Drive to a Basic Drive SCSIraidGURU <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 11/6/2008 5:50:09 PM Backup. Boot your Vista CD. Remove the C: drive and recreate it. Reinstall. Restore data. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com)