dynamic disks question

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This is a repost of my question which somehow ended up in a Mac newsgroup.

I am running a windows 2003 network, however I have an Exchange 2003 server
> on a windows 2000 server. I want to mirror my drive with exchange on it
> which means converting from a basic drive to a dynamic. The warnings are
> about access from other operating systems outside of xp pro and 2000. My
> workstations are all XP pro but I have trusted NT4 domain as well, and am
> concerned that if I convert the drive to dynamic, access issues will be
> created (backup exec on the 2003 server, remote email issues and owa, etc).
> Can you please shed some light?
> Thanks
 
Re: dynamic disks question

This is a quote from the Server 2003 Help:
Once converted, a dynamic disk will not contain basic volumes (primary
partitions or logical drives), nor can it be accessed by MS-DOS, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, or Windows XP Home
Edition operating systems. Dynamic disks can only be accessed with Windows
2000, Windows XP Professional, or the Windows Server 2003 family of
operating systems.

I went to Help and typed in: convert basic, and then chose Help Topic #2.
There's a lot of good info in there that you should take a look at.


"Randy S" <RandyS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48C9CF09-2C8C-417C-9C5C-76124BCA7618@microsoft.com...
> This is a repost of my question which somehow ended up in a Mac newsgroup.
>
> I am running a windows 2003 network, however I have an Exchange 2003
> server
>> on a windows 2000 server. I want to mirror my drive with exchange on it
>> which means converting from a basic drive to a dynamic. The warnings are
>> about access from other operating systems outside of xp pro and 2000. My
>> workstations are all XP pro but I have trusted NT4 domain as well, and am
>> concerned that if I convert the drive to dynamic, access issues will be
>> created (backup exec on the 2003 server, remote email issues and owa,
>> etc).
>> Can you please shed some light?
>> Thanks
 
Re: dynamic disks question

Thanks for the response. I also think now my concerns were justified. I
think I will use the 2nd drive as a straight backup rather than mirror.

"JohnB" wrote:

> This is a quote from the Server 2003 Help:
> Once converted, a dynamic disk will not contain basic volumes (primary
> partitions or logical drives), nor can it be accessed by MS-DOS, Windows 95,
> Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, or Windows XP Home
> Edition operating systems. Dynamic disks can only be accessed with Windows
> 2000, Windows XP Professional, or the Windows Server 2003 family of
> operating systems.
>
> I went to Help and typed in: convert basic, and then chose Help Topic #2.
> There's a lot of good info in there that you should take a look at.
>
>
> "Randy S" <RandyS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:48C9CF09-2C8C-417C-9C5C-76124BCA7618@microsoft.com...
> > This is a repost of my question which somehow ended up in a Mac newsgroup.
> >
> > I am running a windows 2003 network, however I have an Exchange 2003
> > server
> >> on a windows 2000 server. I want to mirror my drive with exchange on it
> >> which means converting from a basic drive to a dynamic. The warnings are
> >> about access from other operating systems outside of xp pro and 2000. My
> >> workstations are all XP pro but I have trusted NT4 domain as well, and am
> >> concerned that if I convert the drive to dynamic, access issues will be
> >> created (backup exec on the 2003 server, remote email issues and owa,
> >> etc).
> >> Can you please shed some light?
> >> Thanks
>
>
>
 
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