On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 22:11 -0800, Mailist wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:01:50 -0800 > Norm <r.norm@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 21:04 -0800, Mailist wrote: > > > I have a windows xp box with 25 gig of unformted non partitioned > > > space space on a dynamic drive. The hard drive is partitioned into > > > 2 ntfs partitions for xp. > > > When I attempt to install either core6 of Ubuntu the boot windows > > > partition is recognized and the remainder of the drive is lumped > > > into as single partition of an unrecognized format type. If I > > > format a 3rd partition on the drive and format it as ntfs under > > > windows (my only choice) it is still not recognized when I attempt > > > to install any linux system. > > > Both qparted and Gparted report the file system as unknown on the > > > second and third volume on the drive. > > > How do I prepare the drive so I can use the remaining portion as a > > > linux OS. I can format and use the drive as a windows drive but > > > that is not what I want and reformatting is not an option. > > > > > > > AFAICS "Dynamic drive" support in Fedora is disabled. > > I'd venture to guess that it has something to do with "Dynamic" being > > patented by the evil empire. > > > > Can you boot into Windows XP and revert the disk to normal? > > > > - Gilboa > > > Thanks Gilboa > you basically confirmed what I thought was the problem. I did find a > refrence on the web to it being possible to instal a dual boot on a > dynamic disk box. I tried several different distro and came up empty > each time, it seems that most distros have disabled dynamic drive. > support > There does not appear to by any way to turn dynamic disks back to basic > disks. I am still trying to find out what possible reason there is for > anyone to have changed this box to dynamic. About the only purpose > could be it locks the box to being one that will only run the evil > empire's OS. Dynamic should -only- be used if you're using advanced features (E.g. software RAID, on-line growfs, etc). Assuming you aren't using any advanced (?) feature, open the computer manager. (My Computer -> Right click -> Manage) Disk Management -> Select drive -> Right click -> Revert to basic disk. - Gilboa
