Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk

Howdy folks,

It's been a while but the last post reminded of something...

I've successfully converted dynamic -> basic disks using one of EASEUS (Partition Master v10.2) and AOMEI (AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.6) (free versions) of their partition tool software (in fact I they look so similar there's nothing to choose between them ?).

No data loss. as far I could see. I can't write tutorial, but it must quite easy to figure out because I did !! As Brink said, always make a back up of data you might lose.

This post is not supposed to be an advert for that software; doubtless there are many others that will perform the same job. These are two items that I know will do it, by experience.

Idiot
21.February.2016

I have a disk from an older Windows Home Server 2011 system and when I put it into my Windows 10 PC it shows up in Disk Management as Invalid. First I was wondering if your original tutorial would work in Windows 10. Second, I was wondering if I should use the latest version of Partition Wizard instead of the 4_2 in your original post?

Brink said:

Hello Brergo, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Yes, you can use the tutorial in Windows 10 as well. The option is only available in the older 4_2 version, otherwise it's only a feature in the newer paid version.

Thanks for your quick reply Brink!

I installed PW 4_2 and after clicking Convert Dynamic DIsk to Basic Disk, I got the following error:

Partition Wizard cannot convert the specified dynamic disk to basic disk. Because Partition Wizard cannot convert any dynamic volume type except the simple or mirrored volume. (see attached screenshot).

Could it be the because of the way Windows Home Server configures disks? Any thoughts?

Most likely the disks were in some form of RAID that is supported only with dynamic disks. If the disks were converted Windows wouldn't be able to use them.

Hi,
I am trying to repair a disc.
It was a primary disk, but got converted to dynamic somehow.
I am at Option 1, tep 3.
I ran PW 4.2 and it ran for a few minutes and did a restart.
After the restart, I get the following error when trying to access it
>Location is not available
>K:\ is not accessible
>Access is denied.


When I go to properties, the security tab says
>You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object.
If I click advanced, and try to add me to "full control", it sends me back to previous page.


I can look at the disk with PW, and the explore command shows a bunch of files
with strange file names.
This does not look good.
Any ideas on where to go from here?