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Windows 2003 basic disk won't convert.

HI All

I have an old HP DL 140 G2, that doesn't do hardware RAID so I am setting up software raid.

I have 2 x 74GB disk, Disk 0 has windows OS installed (Basic disk)
Disk 1 is blank.

When I try and convert the disk to dynamic through disk management after I select the disk and click next the tab just disappears.

When I use diskpart I get the following.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 75 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 75 GB 74 GB *

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> convert dynamic

The disk management services could not complete the operation.

Any ideas ?

Thanks Arm

ArmstrongInt

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I can convert Disk 1 to Dynamic and back to Basic with no issues.

David

Some of the RAID controllers steal a little bit from the beginning of the drive for metadata. Did you reformat the HD and use it as a non-RAID disk in this system w/o the RAID controller first to make sure all is well with the drive?

ArmstrongInt

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HI there

Yes the system has no raid controller so windows was just installed on drive 0 as an independent drive.

The weird thing is I have 4 servers the same, all created form the same storage craft image, and it works on 1 of the 4 boxes.

Very odd. Thanks

David

So ever run diagnostics on this disk?

ArmstrongInt

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Yes no reported problems.

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ArmstrongInt

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Thanks Dlethe it was an issue with disk space. All resolved and working now.

Thanks again

Arm