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HELP! accidently made the hdd dynamic, cant switch to basic
hello
i was trying today to make a new partition using disk management on win7 64bit;everything went wrong
NOTE: i'm on a laptop (the only machine) that has only 1 hdd and used to have 4 partitions: C: D: E: and systemH:
i shrinked the volume of C: which was 444gb to get 12gb unallocated space
i chose to create a partition with the unallocated space
before starting it told me something about dynamic; i ignored it cuz i didnt know what dynamic and basic mean
so i chose yes; suddenly all partitions became yellow/brown
i noticed that there was no more primary partitions so i created a system repair disk and the hp recovery media discs
after shutting down i knew something wrong's gonna happen so i turned it on again and got error 0x00000000225 or something like that and cant boot windows (not found)
what i wanna do now is to get back the hdd to basic
i tried installing ubuntu 11.10 on the 12gb partition but that didnt work
tried the system recovery disk: it found the errors so i chose to automatically fix them
win7 boot normal
still cant install any other os
can convert hdd to basic anymore
i have easeus partition master 9.10 home edition and i tried it but says there's an error in c: while converting to basic; it says i can ignore the error but that may make the disk unbootable
i messed up realllyyy well this time and cant afford loosing anything
- the question is: if i continue using easeus and make it basic while ignore the error, will the data on the discs be conserved?
- if the drive becomes unbootable, and i use system recovery disk, will it be back to it's original state?
- if not, any other way to switch the hdd back to basic without installing any os and without loosing the data?
what i have:
what i don't have and cant get:
- the laptop
- system repair disc(created by windows)
- hp recovery discs
- a very unreliable internet connection
- 3 empty dvds
so can anyone help me PLZ?? i need to get the hdd basic again without loosing partitions or windows
- external hdd
- money
- windows 7 hp 64bit installation disc
NB:the specs are:
1hdd 500 gb
amd phenom II N930 quad core processor 2.00 ghz
amd M880G with ati mobility radeon hd 4250 & ati radeon hd 5650 1gb
4gb ram
i dunno the motherboard
hp pavillion dv6 laptop: i think it's factory refurbrished
i already read about dynamic and basic but didnt help me a lot; i want to use the laptop for dual and triple boot after fixing it
10x