Windows 10: Dynamic vs Basic Disk - DMDE Issues, Creating FAT32 Partition for Windows XP

Such problems are described a bit. They come to DMDE but there is not too much explanation there.

My problem is (I think) simpler. I have two disks on the PC. On a 250GB basic disk is windows 10 64bit and one data partition. There is only data on the second 160GB disk.


The disk is dynamic (I don't even know when it happened or why). Somehow it didn't bother me because it actually works, the data is what I got there. Now, however, I wanted to create a small FAT32 partition on it and install windows XP on it. And here the stairs start because if I didn't do it, the Windows XP installer sees this disk as if it had one primary partition in NTSF.

The question is, can you create two basic partitions on this disk without deleting the data? One small for XP and the other with data. Trying to googling I come across paid programs or programs and descriptions that are hard to believe. Besides, I don't quite trust the "one click" programs and even the paid ones look like that.

I just need to run the winXP system to give it motherboard drivers and run the tool from ASUS (the board is ASUS P5Q) because only there you can add / edit CPU fan settings. Such a curiosity with these boards that you can save in the BIOS one of your own fan profile but only from the level of the software that can not be run on win 10: / You can not do it in the BIOS immediately add. And so here with a simple problem that is basically not a big problem I'm struggling the other day. I will add that in MiniXP live it can't be done (at least I can't do it because the installers don't work there).

I came to the conclusion that the easiest way to get yourself XP but here also a problem appeared.

I know that this is not the answer to your question, but wouldn't it be easier to connect a blank disk and put XP on it?

Virtualbox or another win10 emulator?

This XPeka installation already with SP preloaded is?

How can you have two partitions on the disk with the same drive letter? I haven't seen it yet.

First, turn off swap on a 160GB drive. From what I see it is about 90GB occupied, you can transfer this data to 250GB partitions, the rest on other media and do order with the disk.

rosak wrote:

it would be easier to connect a blank disk

It would be but I don't have pure SATA on hand. And the ATA sitting on the additional controller will be a problem with the installation.

enhanced wrote:

This XPeka installation is already pre-loaded with SP

SP2 has uploaded - that's one I bought ages ago.
As for virtualization - I doubt that programs will have access to the BIOS from a virtual machine.

DriverMSG wrote:

two partitions with the same drive letter?

This is nothing - if you choose to reduce the volume, the free space slows down in the middle. If I slowed down as much free time as possible I slowed down at the beginning and end. This is the magic of dynamic disk - you can supposedly create one partition on 2 physical disks even.

In fact, it will be easiest to clean up the disk and put the rest on D. I just hope that Win 10 me will not break this XP installation right after booting.

Turn off or unplug the Windows 10 disk for experiments with XP.

DriverMSG wrote:

Disable

I was just going to ask - is it feasible? Because as I fought with it, I set the controller in the BIOS first to IDE (installing XP on AHCI requires flops with drivers and somehow I don't smile plugging in floppy drives). and then I set the 250GB disk as not detected. In the BIOS it disappeared but in the XP installer it was visible. Is this the norm or what? I'd rather tear it off just in case. This, however, surprised me.

It depends on the motherboard rather. To be sure, I always unplug unnecessary disks during system installation. More than once the installer put my startup files where I didn't want to.