I created two volumes on my dynamic disk which were C: and D:. I have Windows 2000 Server on C: already. I wanted to set up another Windows 2000 Server on D: and have a third volume available. So today, I delete volume D: first and created two new volumes in Windows 2000 Server Computer Management Console. The letter I had were D: and H:. The other letters are used by Zip drives, CD-ROM and CD-RW drive. From bootup, in Windows 2000 Server setup, it only recognized C: and D;. So, how can I let it recognize H: too?

You can't. Here's a tidbit from Microsoft KB article

Q227364 (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q227/3/64.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=q227364&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W95.)


"Windows 2000 does not fully support pure dynamic disk volumes during Setup.
Setup only understands dynamic disk partitions that are hard-linked. Hard-linked
dynamic partitions are created when you upgrade a basic disk to dynamic and the
basic disk had pre-existing primary and/or logical drives configured. Each of
the pre-existing partitions retains a legacy-style partition table entry (type
42 for primary and type 05 for extended), even after upgrading the disk to
dynamic. These special hard-linked partition table entries allows Setup to
recognize them as valid partitions for installation.

Pure dynamic disks (those not containing any hard-linked partitions) have only a
single partition table entry (type 42) to define the entire disk. Dynamic disks
store their volume configuration in a database located in a 1-MB private region
at the end of each dynamic disk. Volumes contained on a pure dynamic disk are
soft-linked, and drive letters for them are not displayed until Setup is
complete. Setup displays a single drive letter for the whole drive (usually the
drive letter assigned to the first soft-linked partition) even if it has
multiple volumes configured. You cannot install a fresh installation to this
type of dynamic disk without destroying underlying volumes."

Hope this helps

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[This message has been edited by Ghost_Hacker (edited 01-30-2001).]