I don't understand how I would backup a drive I cannot access via XP. I
never thought to look for it via DOS. I'm sure you understand it's the data
that's valuable to me, not having a formated drive. Would you tell me how
you would backup a dynamic HD.

Thanks

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

> Indeed, unless you back it up somewhere else first.
>
>
> "John Blanding" <JohnBlanding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FEEF71FE-04F3-49C3-9C1F-C2754FA0200A@microsoft.com...
> > Thank you.
> >
> > And, of course I loose all my data?
> >
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "John Blanding" <JohnBlanding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> > > news:44627341-AF3F-4421-9E57-250AB6A1B2BD@microsoft.com...
> > > > I upgraded my pc to a new mother board. Before starting that process,
> I
> > > used
> > > > Microsoft's backup utility to back up my C: drive in total to a
> removable
> > > > hard drive. When I installed the removable hard drive into my new pc
> it
> > > > never shows up under "my computer", but does show up in device manager
> > > > hardware. Looking at my removable drive under "computer
> management/disk
> > > > management" it show up now as a dynamic drive.
> > > >
> > > > I've been told locally once a drive has been changed to a dynamic
> drive,
> > > it
> > > > cannot be reverted. Obviously, I am missing vital information I
> thought I
> > > > had taken proper actions to save.
> > > >
> > > > Bottom line: Is there anyway to convert a dynamic drive to a basic
> NTFS
> > > > hard drive?
> > >
> > > Your backup drive became dynamic when you partitioned it.
> > > This can be quite unobtrusive - it's happened to me too. The
> > > only way to revert to a basic disk is to repartition it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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