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Thread ID: 75276 2006-12-23 06:14:00 Installing second SATA HDD JMoore (9352) Press F1
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508898 2006-12-24 23:03:00 If you want to revert to a basic disk, you'll have to back up all volumes on the disk, remove the volumes, revert the disk, create partitions, and restore the volume data.
Does this mean that I will have to install the hard drive back into the other PC? The other PC is actually in another city...
JMoore (9352)
508899 2006-12-24 23:13:00 Yea I'm running XP Home so that must be the problem...I find it difficult to understand why I wouldn't be able to move a hard drive between two XP systems without having this sort of trouble. The way I see it, they downgraded XP Home? JMoore (9352)
508900 2006-12-25 20:40:00 Well yeah, both may have XP, the diff is, One has Pro the other Home.

Home doesn't have as many features as Pro. Not much we can do about it.

If MS decided that Dynamic hdds only worked on Pro and not Home.

And not much u can do about it, besides format it.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
508901 2006-12-26 01:04:00 It might be easier to find a friend with XP Pro and put the HDD in there to extract the data. It's going to be annoying but it's the only real way to get it back safely.

Copy the data to something temporararily (another hard drive for example) and format it normally.
george12 (7)
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