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"Initialize And Convert Disk Wizard"?

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(PeteCresswell)

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Feb 28, 2009, 9:08:51 PM2/28/09
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Just fired up my TV server with a second (new, unformatted) 1-TB
disc in it.

A Wiz popped: "Initialize And Convert Disc".

Sounds good to me: a single logical volume that spans the two
discs, so I won't be hassled with balancing the load between
them.

But when this wizard does it's thing, it will hose the data on my
existing disc right?

In the absence of a convenient place to stash almost a t-byte of
recorded TV shows, I'm hoping to hear it will preserve existing
data.

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Mike Walsh

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Mar 1, 2009, 12:35:26 PM3/1/09
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Where did the message come from; Windows?, a RAID adapter?
If the message is from Windows the new disk will be formatted and the old disk will be unaffected. If you have a RAID adapter you can use RAID 0 to combine two same size partitions on each drive, but data will be lost when the partitions are formatted.
You might be able to concatenate the drives i.e. link them so that a partition on each drive appears as one larger partition. If I recall correctly I did this years ago with WinNT.

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Mike Walsh

(PeteCresswell)

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Mar 1, 2009, 3:13:03 PM3/1/09
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Per Mike Walsh:

>You might be able to concatenate the drives i.e. link them so that a partition on each drive appears as one larger partition. If I recall correctly I did this years ago with WinNT.

I did a little more reading and decided against it.

But now windows has is somehow marked as a special device that
gets logical disks on it.

Anybody know how to tell Windows XP to consider it a plain old
disk drive again?
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Mike Walsh

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Mar 1, 2009, 7:46:14 PM3/1/09
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Go to Computer Management - Disk Management.
You should be able to fix it there. You might have to repartition and format the drive.

> PeteCresswell

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Mike Walsh

(PeteCresswell)

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Mar 2, 2009, 10:57:56 AM3/2/09
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Per Mike Walsh:

>Go to Computer Management - Disk Management.
>You should be able to fix it there. You might have to repartition and format the drive.

Got it. Had to right-click on the disc name rather than the
partition info to the right. Before I was clicking on the
partition info and didn't see any option.

Thanks.
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