Help on Dynamic disk resizing.

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albertyong88@gmail.com

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Hey guys,

Need some help. For some reason I converted my partition to a Dynamic Disk. So Diskparted won't work on it. Looks like a nice program though - good to know about it!

I've tried the copy hdd image approach, but in Logical Disk Manager, it says the second drive is a "Foreign Disc." I try to import the foreign disc and it doesn't work. Nothing happens and the drive never mounts. It doesn't matter which image I boot from, the second is always said to be a foreign disc. I even tried converting from an expanding image to a fixed sized image and I get the same stuff.

So I can't load the second partition to resize it.

Help...

Is it because both show up as MasterBootRecord partitions?

Is there any way to completely copy everything into a Basic partition? I really don't want to set up Windoze from scratch again!

I'm running XP Pro SP2.
 
Well, restoring a backup of your last good configuration would be my choice, but if you didn't make one, you might try (first noting that I haven't actually tried this) setting up a new VM with the size disk you want, and installing XP (but not activating it). Then set the new .hdd as a second hard disk for your old vm. Start the old VM and you should find the original C drive, and the new hard disk as D.

Delete all the files on D. Then copy all the files on C to it. Then rearrange the disks so that the new drive is your boot disk. If it doesn't boot, start from your install CD and do a repair install.

Make backups at each step along the way so if something goes wrong, you can back up a step or two and try something else.

Then before you do anything you can't undo in the future, back it up.

Note that with all these changes, XP may decide it needs reactivation.
 
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