Dynamic Disk problem

[Rols]

For all you windowz gurus......

I have a single 80GB drive (actually its hardware raided - but as far as windows is concerned its a single drive) it has been converted into a dynamic disk with 4 partitions however one of the partitions is showing up as "system" volume - I can tell you its definatley NOT the system volume. It actually doesnt contain any data at all. The problem is I cant delete this partition as long as it is labeled system volume.

Anyone have any ideas??

 

[chriseubank]

I suspect you will probably have to use your SCSI utilities to low-level format this drive..

 

[Rols]

I actually want to just delete the partition (without affecting any of the other partitions). I dont think a low level format will help me in this case - but thanks for your input.

 

[xchefpeter]

have you tried a 3rd party software such as Partion magic or go into disk manager and remove the dynamic disking and try deleteing the partion then and then remark the disk as dynamic?????

xchefpeter
A+N+MCP
Pending MCSA>MCSE>CCNA
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I never know my limitations until I exceed them

 

[Rols]

Unfortunatley if I revert the disk back to a basic disk I will loose all partitions on the disk including the system/boot volume - hence it would be the same as rebuilding the enitre system. I was hoping to just delete the partition in question without having to rebuild the box.

Cheers

 

[xchefpeter]

as a hardware raid is the "partition" hot swappable?

xchefpeter
A+N+MCP
Pending MCSA>MCSE>CCNA
----------------------------------
I never know my limitations until I exceed them

 

[Rols]

The hardware raid is a RAID 0 set - stripped. So there is no possibility of swapping disks (which would not fix the problem even if you could). Im not sure what you mean by a hot swappable partition?