Can't install a dual boot system

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 21:04 -0800, Mailist wrote:
> I have a windows xp box with 25 gig of unformted non partitioned space
> space on a dynamic drive.  The hard drive is partitioned into 2 ntfs
> partitions for xp.
> When I attempt to install either core6 of Ubuntu the boot windows
> partition is recognized and the remainder of the drive is lumped into
> as single partition of an unrecognized format type.  If I format a 3rd
> partition on the drive and format it as ntfs under windows (my only
> choice) it is still not recognized when I attempt to install any linux
> system.
> Both qparted and Gparted report the file system  as unknown on the
> second and third volume on the drive.
> How do I prepare the drive so I can use the remaining portion as a
> linux OS. I can format and use the drive as a windows drive but that is
> not what I want and reformatting is not an option.
> 

AFAICS "Dynamic drive" support in Fedora is disabled.
I'd venture to guess that it has something to do with "Dynamic" being
patented by the evil empire.

Can you boot into Windows XP and revert the disk to normal?

- Gilboa