I'm helping my brother with a drive problem, and it's been forever since I've done this, so I'd appreciate some confirmation. He had an external Ethernet-connected WD HD that went belly-up on him.

Yesterday, I had a PSS call where the MS guy I spoke to showed me this procedure. I'm posting it here so that others may not need to pay $245 to learn the same thing.<BR><BR>**Disclaimer: This ONLY ...

He also tried the Convert Dynamic command of Diskpart, but that didn’t work either. A little digging around dug up this KB article which outlined the problem–the single volume on the disk completely ...