RE: GPT Protected Partition?

Hello Joe,
Are you running SP1? Support for GPT disks was added in SP1, so to make
any changes you to those disks you do need to be running SP1.
There should be an option to convert to MBR disks when you right-click on
the drive( the drive not the volume/partition) in Logical Disk Manager.
That option is new for SP1.
Converting the disk requires that all information first be removed since
the convert process is destructive.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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>Hello,
>
>I am wondering if anyone can help me get this one drive of mine in server
>2003 back to a normal basic disc. Some how it has turned into a GPT
protected
>partiton and I have never seen this before. All the conventional methods
have
>not worked.
>
>this disk sits on an IDE RAID controller and it is all by itself It does
not
>effect my RAID -5 set I am trying to get it back to pre install
"unallocated"
>status
>
>
>Thank you
>Joe
>

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