No option to import foreign disks

I moved an IDE drive in a USB Caddy hooked up to my XP Pro laptop XP Pro machine. It appears in management of disks as a foreign dynamic disk, but when I right click there is no option to import.

Problem solved

Alternatively, you can solve the problem by converting the dynamic disk to Basic. To convert the disk, use the Dskprob.exe tool.

Important If you do not properly use the Dskprob.exe tool, this process can cause you to lose all the data the disk. This process only works if you have not used one of the new features of dynamic disks. These features include extending a partition or by using the software redundant array of independent Disk (RAID).

  1. Download and install the tools of Support for Microsoft Windows XP. To do this, visit the following Web site:

    Note When you install these tools, click Finish when you are prompted to click standard or full. If you click on by default, you need to reinstall the tools. When you reinstall the tools, click optional when you are prompted.

  2. Click Start, click run, type Dskprobe.exe and then click on OK.
  3. In the menu of drives , click the physical drive.
  4. In the box of available physical drives , double-click the drive you want to change.
  5. Click the value Active, and then click OK.
  6. On the Sectors menu, click read.
  7. Click the play button to accept the default settings.
  8. In the editor, find the 0 line 01b. In this line, the third pair of numbers on the right is 42. Change at 06:18.

    Note On some computers, 42 may appear on the line 0 01.

  9. On the Sectors menu, click write.
  10. When you receive a message that is similar to the following, click Yes:
    The current handle is in read-only mode. You want to change the current mode to allow writing the buffer selected the disk?
  11. Click on write.
  12. When you receive a message that is similar to the following, click Yes:
    Are you sure you want to permanently overwrite data in sector 0 of the device then 0
  13. Exit of Prob of disc and then restart the computer.
  14. Once the computer restarts, click Start, click run, type cmd and then click OK.
  15. On the command line, type chkdsk to check for errors.
  16. If errors are found, type chkdsk /f on the command line to fix the errors.

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