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

have you tried to partition and format it?
<JADank@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>

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
>>
>
>