Problem with SSD and HD together, DELL T3400

I'm not locating any issues with A14 version of the bios but its your choice not to upgrade .

1GB of data should be easy to back up - just in case. But normally the data should not be altered - at least I cannot recall reports about that from previous users of pw422.

With your drive connected to the XP machine, copy the data to an external hard drive. Then use the suggestions by WHS and connvert the disk to a simple/basic partition with PW422, reconnect it to the Windows 7 machine and copy the data back.

Steve I think he made up his mind. He is not going to bother. I am still puzzled how that one partition could have ended up as dynamic.

The SSD is already marked active.

WHS, probably because it is a Dell. They, in many cases, have 3 partitions on them some of them are hidden. So, adding a couple of more will cause disk management to ask to make it dynamic. If you don't know the difference, you'd probably do it and not even think about it, if you didn't know what a dynamic drive is.

vangogh said:

I certainly am considering just getting a new HD for this. But also turning over in my mind the backup and conversion to simple/basic.

Still: Vista King: "You could do is Mark the SSD drive as active and remove the active from the XP drive inside XPs device manager"

I'm sorry, I can't figure that one out - how is it possible to mark the disk not active? Don't see a way.

Yes, you can do that easily with Partition wizzard or diskpart. But, I think your problem is the dynamic drive and not which is active. I have 2 active drives in my rig now, and it causes me no problems.

whs said:

Steve I think he made up his mind. He is not going to bother. I am still puzzled how that one partition could have ended up as dynamic.

I'm puzzled on why a dynamic partition on another drive would keep your SSD from booting.