How do I convert a basic volume to a dynamic voume

[Dynamic volume]

Hi
Ref.: XP home edition
120GB hard drive

Existing situation:

I have a Disk "O" which contains the MBR, "C" drive for
the XP OS with 103.79GB NTFS which is the primary
partion. I also have an "E" drive for an evaluation copy
of Win 2000 server OS with 4GB NTFS which is a Logical
drive and free space of 3.99GB.

Question:
How do convert to a Dynamic volume for the XP OS and
delete (eliminate completely) the Win 2000 Server Logical
drive and free space without adversly effecting the MBR
of XP OS? Thanks.

[Sharon F]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:04:16 -0700, Dynamic volume wrote:

> Hi
> Ref.: XP home edition
> 120GB hard drive
>
> Existing situation:
>
> I have a Disk "O" which contains the MBR, "C" drive for
> the XP OS with 103.79GB NTFS which is the primary
> partion. I also have an "E" drive for an evaluation copy
> of Win 2000 server OS with 4GB NTFS which is a Logical
> drive and free space of 3.99GB.
>
> Question:
> How do convert to a Dynamic volume for the XP OS and
> delete (eliminate completely) the Win 2000 Server Logical
> drive and free space without adversly effecting the MBR
> of XP OS? Thanks.

You can delete the partition with the Win2000 server via XP's disk
management - one of the administrative tools in the Computer Management
category.

The dynamic disk portion of your question is a little tricky. From XP's
help file:

You can install Windows XP Professional only on simple and mirrored dynamic
volumes, and these volumes must have entries in the partition table (which
means that these volumes were system or boot volumes).

You should be able to find out more about this in the MS Knowledge Base and
the online XP Resource Kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prork_overview.asp?frame=true

--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User