[TriLUG] Linux on Toshiba laptop not recognizing 2nd hard disk!

Phillip Rhodes mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk
Sun Feb 15 12:07:16 EST 2004


William Sutton wrote:


> Out of curiosity (and realizing that you might have to find a way to 
> revert it), what happens if you copy the data off, format the drive as 
> vfat, and put the data back on the drive?  I'm curious if it 1. will still 
> register as dynamic (or, hopefully, not) and 2. will be usable under both 
> Windows and Linux for read/write.
> 

Apparently it's possible to revert it to a non-dynamic drive, but I have
to backup my data and delete all the "volumes" on the drive first. Of 
course I don't have enough free space on the other drive to copy 
everything off this drive.  I think I may have enough on one of
my desktop machines, but that means copying everything over the network,
which is gonna take forever...

Or I could back stuff up to DVD-R, but I'm not sure how long
that would take either..

Oh well... no biggie, at least now I understand what's going on.


TTYL,

Phil


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