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i had to install win2000 fro temporary reasons(waiting on XP disc from M$) my problem is i have a second HDD that was setup as a dynamic disk. not sure how or why, but my win2000 does not read it. it wants me to reformat it but i cant bacause i cannot back it up.

how can i get 2000 to view this HDD?

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Moving a Dynamic Disk to a New System
Windows 2000 makes the task of moving drives to a new system a lot easier. If you want to move a dynamic drive to a new computer, follow these steps:

1. Access Disk Management on the system where the dynamic drives are currently installed.

2. Check the status of the drives and ensure that they're marked as healthy. If the status isn't healthy, you should repair partitions and volumes, as necessary, before you move the disk drives.

3. Remove drive letters and drive paths that reference the drives, as described in the section of this chapter entitled "Assigning Drive Letters and Paths."

4. If the drives are hot-swappable and this feature is supported on both systems, remove the drives, and then install them on the destination computer. Otherwise, turn off both computers. Remove the drives from the original system and then install them on the new system. When you're finished, turn the computers back on.

5. On the destination computer, from the Action menu select Rescan Disks. When the scan finishes, right-click any disk marked Foreign, and then click Import Foreign Disks.

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