Brought in 2 perfectly working 400GB SATA drives and needed to set up a spare drive at work to keep the SQL files. Was on my merry way to create a striped volume, and bang, bang, bang, bang. Just can't do it.
Found out you CANNOT convert to dynamic disk if you are one of the following:
- portable computers
- removable disks
- detachable disks that use Universal Serial Bus (USB) or IEEE 1394 (also called FireWire) interfaces
- disks connected to shared SCSI buses
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731274.aspx