How to Import Foreign Disks

All dynamic disks on a computer running Windows XP are members of the same disk group. Each disk in the group contains dynamic disk database for the entire group stored in the 1 MB reserved disk area at the end of the disk. When a dynamic disk is move from one computer to another, Windows displays it as a foreign disk because it does not belong to the local disk group. Doing this it merge the disk’s information into the dynamic disk database on the new computer and place a copy of the database on the newly installed disk.

Steps:

1. In Disk Management, right-click the disk that is marked Foreign and click Import
                Foreign Disks from the Action menu.

2. Select the disk group that is to be import. (There might be more than one foreign disk
                group if you have moved multiple disks from different computers into the same
                computer running Windows XP).

3. Review the information to ensure that the condition for the volumes in the disk group being
                 imported is displayed as OK. If all the disks for a spanned or striped volume are not
                 present, the condition is displayed as incomplete.

4. If satisfied with the information click OK to import the disks.