Saab,
Three HD's. All single partitioned since 2003.
Three CD-ROM's. 1 DVD-R-RW 1 CD-ROM x 52 and 1 DVD player.
ONE hard drive and ONE CDM-ROM connected to IDE Controller as Master and Slave. Making the 4 Devices allowed and two on the IDE Controller is two more devices = 6 Devices. All happily playing with each other for three years on XP Pro. New XP Pro upgrade installed with SPS2. All devices seen but not the HDD connected to the controller. All instructions were directed to one drive only as a single partition and to be the OS drive.
Point about losing data is well noted about converting dynamic back to basic. This is why I must get it right first time and get it off before I do anything.
I am aware that I can copy the data OFF the drive onto another but which way is best. And, of course, the drive will have to be seen by the machine before I can do that.
The sequence is therefore important. Can I connect the miscreant onto IDE 2 on the mobo and copy the content onto my OS drive? The stuff on it has no connection to the OS drive and there is plenty of room on the latter.
I found this to consider and again your views would be helpful.
http://www.alexnolan.net/articles/im...eign_disks.htm
Thanks for your help too Mac and I have to say that this
I suspect, with Saab, that Windows is seeing this as a dynamic disk when it isn't - I shall research this further.
was in my simple thoughts.
Thanks to you too Cornish.
Ah computers!
CF