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how to properly format hard drives in xp
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Malenko:
you cant boot a dynamic drive, and you typically do that for RAID arrays
NickG:
Don't go dynamic or you may regret it later.
Anecdote:  My friend and I were trying to back up data from my computer onto his hard drive, which we connected to my computer to speed up the transfer.  The drive showed up, but the partition information seemed wrong.  Under disk management there were a few very small partitions of only a few megabytes which spanned the entire length of the bar graph, and they were marked as "foreign"   
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