dynamic partitions

I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID 0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive.
I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition.
Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from the nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic partitions?
Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be overcome in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either.
Jon

I'm personally not sure... having said that, Vista is a brand new product being "advanced" and all. Is it worth trying it and reporting back? :o)
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I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID 0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive.
I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition.
Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from the nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic partitions?
Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be overcome in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either.
Jon

It might be overcome on EFI machines, but very probably not on BIOS machines. This is because making a disk dynamic makes the partition table and boot sector alien to the BIOS. -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Jon Davis" a écrit dans le message de news: uhNkX0pbGHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... |I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID | 0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive. | | I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it | installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd | never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition. | | Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth | asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot | loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from the | nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic | partitions? | | Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be overcome | in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either. | | Jon | |

Heh... well that's sorta what I said I did over two weekends. I tried. :o)
Jon
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

I'm personally not sure... having said that, Vista is a brand new product being "advanced" and all. Is it worth trying it and reporting back? :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jon Davis" wrote in message I have 3 hard drives. First one is primary SATA w/ XP. Second one is nvRAID 0 formatted and partitioned as a single dynamic drive.
I've figured out how, in general, one can work with Vista to get it installed on nvRAID. Spent a couple weeks on this but realized that it'd never happen as long as the partition is a dynamic partition.
Here's a silly question (I know the answer is probably 'no' but it's worth asking anyway) ... With the new boot loader for Vista, any chance the boot loader can be put on the first SATA drive and the OS can be booted from the nvRAID dynamic partition from there? Does the boot loader "know" dynamic partitions?
Was hoping the "cannot boot from a dynamic partition" rule could be overcome in future OS's. And I don't know what the limitation is all about either.
Jon