Hi,

The following links are provided by Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> for my
questions:


http://support.microsoft.com/?id=236086
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320283

Hope this will help you as well.


"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> have you tried to partition and format it?
> <JADank@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1136496803.201532.79970@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> Dear techs,
>>
>> im trying to install a 250gb WD IDE drive in a Winwods Media Center
>> edition Dell. The drive was previously formatted for NTFS on a winxp
>> pro machine. The drive is connected to a pci card that came with the
>> drive. the pci card works fine because another drive is conencted to
>> it and is fine. the issue is that windows recognizes the drive, but in
>> the disk managment utility it says it's dynamic and unreadable. I know
>> i never converted the drive to dynamic. The WD diagnostic floppy
>> confirms that the 250gb drive is ok. Anyone have any ideas how to make
>> this disk work with windows? Ive already tried all tech support from
>> WD, Microsoft, and DELL.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel
>>
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