This is a dangerous maneuver if you have valuable data. If you can access from other disk, please, do a full backup, before. Try with a linux distro, Mandrake or something, to generate and activate = a NTFS partition. Then install XP. Dennis. Buehler, Martin wrote: > my original disk partitioning has been: > > disk1: primary partition + beginning of dynamic volume > disk2: part2 of dynamic volume > disk3: part3 of dynamic volume > > unfortunately, i deleted the primary partition on disk1 for test > purposes. > > now, i need to regenerate a primary partition on disk1, but windows > does only allow me to generate a simple dynamic volume, but no primary > partition. > > i also tried to generate such a partition using the windows install > cd, but doing so, the install tool tells me that the dynamic multi > disk volume will be lost, when generating a primary partition. > > what workaround allows me to regenerate a primary partition on this > disk, without loosing all data on the dynamic multi disk volume? > > please help! > > tino =09 ___________________________________=20 A tu celular =BFno le falta algo?=20 Us=E1 Yahoo! Messenger y Correo Yahoo! en tu tel=E9fono celular.=20 M=E1s informaci=F3n en http://movil.yahoo.com.ar --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist