Re: HD can not be reactivated by Disk Management

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Hi Richard:

>As per http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254105, dynamic disks are NOT
>supported on the Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus!
>
>Looks like you're screwed!

I think he has another problem.

I've read the above link (quite awhile ago). I've had an array of
dynamic disks 250+250+160 GB's as one drive Z: in my computer. Due to
heat I had to install them in USB boxes. I just took them out from the
IDE interface inside the computer and put them into the USB boxes.

Now they WON'T automount, but have to be mounted manually, However
this was no problem to do - and my computer is always on, so I didn't
have to do it often. I've since got a better case, with better cooling
and reinstalled the drives inside the cabinet on the ide device -
again the switch was no problem!

The poster said something about:

On each drive I reconfigured drive letter and disk setup so it would
not remember the rest of drives.

I'm not sure why he did this. I just took them out of the ide
interface and then straight into the usb boxes. I wonder if this has
something to do with it.

Regards Leif.
.

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