Converted all drives to dynamic. How to revert back to basic ?


  1. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 x64
       #1

    Converted all drives to dynamic. How to revert back to basic ?


    well scenario is I got my new dell 15r laptop with windows 7 basic loaded yesterday.. so backed it up and wanted to put my old PC's windows 7 ultimate version on it. I installed it, while installation it allowed to have only 4 partitions.
    it already had 2 partitions
    1) Recovery - 15gb
    2) something i forgot ... some 40MB

    so i made a partition of 125GB for OS
    and rest of unallocated space ie some 660gb could not be allocated in more than one partition so i let it be unallocated
    so after installtion got completed and OS started i went in disk management and tried to make that unallocated space of 660GB in 2-3 partitions.. but it converted all my previous partitions also to dynamic. even recovery partitions.
    How do i go back to basic partitions?? particularly about that recovery partition and my C: (OS partition) ??

    PS: i've naive on this subject
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  2. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 x64
    Thread Starter
       #2

    ok now i burned partition wizard and started from cd
    But, its showing me one full 950gb HD.. and it's not convertable to basic
    i can't see any partitions or other...just plain one dynamic structure what do i do now?
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  3. Posts : 414
    win7 ultimate 32bit
       #3

    A dynamic disk contains dynamic volume (also called dynamic partition), if you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk by windows built-in disk manager, you will get a serious performance boost.

    see this page:

    Dynamic Disk Partition Management and Extend, Shrink, Resize Dynamic Volume.
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  4. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    but i want to go back to factory settings .. ie basic disk.

    now i've tried re-formatting but windows 7 is taking way long for installation and even then its not starting.. plz help
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  5. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    Is this true ? I`d like to try it.
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  6. Posts : 414
    win7 ultimate 32bit
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  7. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    yea read all those
    But what my prob is my OS and recovery and all other partitions and unallocated space is on disk 0.
    and entire disk is dynamic
    Now i want to convert it back to basic
    and can't do i until its empty
    to make it empty i'd have to delete recovery partition and all..
    so any solution to it?
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  8. Posts : 414
    win7 ultimate 32bit
       #8

    Use Ycopy to back up the drive to another source, then delete the dynamic disk and set it up as a basic disk.

    get it here:

    Download yCopy 2.0.1.3 Free - Easily sync your folders - Softpedia

    before you ask--here's info on yCopy

    http://www.spacejock.com/yCopy2.html
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