I wanted to partition 90 GB from my C drive so that i can install Windows 8.
When i tried to rename the acollated 90 GB to Windows 8 it turned all my disks including c and all my disks into dynamic, i put back my 90 GB into my C and nothing happen. The color is like greenish and i want it back to basic TYPE: Basic
What did i do wrong???
Also on my C Drive it says its not the Primary Partition ?!?
Hello NBAPwns13,
Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing the full layout of your Disk Management window first. This will allow us to help better.
For now, OPTION ONE or OPTION TWO in the tutorial below may be what you are needing.
Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk
Im actually scared right now because i don't have any usb's to back my files up and i don't know what i did really i just wanted to rename the disk that's all....
Also im using Windows 7
You can use OPTION TWO in the tutorial above to convert your Disk 0 back to basic without losing anything. :)
The main thing is do not restart or shut down the computer until you have done OPTION TWO. If you do, Windows 7 will be unbootable, and you will have to use step 1 in OPTION ONE instead.
No D: I got an error
Find some partition error, continue this operation might cause boot failure and data loss, are you sure yo proceed?
Also theres a red ! point on the right hand side also i dont have #disk 0 i have #disk 1. I don't see that ! point on the screen shot tutorial
Did you try and convert the Disk # that is dynamic?
Could you post a full screenshot of showing all this in the program?
If you have not already, create a set of HP factory recovery discs in case you have to do a factory recovery.
HP PCs - Creating Recovery Discs or Saving a Recovery Image to a USB Flash Drive (Windows 7) - c01867124 - HP Business Support Center
Next, it looks like you will need to use OPTION ONE instead. If you have the same error using step 3 in OPTION ONE, then you'll need to use step 2 in OPTION ONE at boot.
OMG! Thanks man! alot it worked! all my drives are now basic
I have a question i want to partition my C drive and take out 90 GB for windows 8.
How do i rename the 90 accolated disk?
Great news.
You could use METHOD TWO in the tutorial below to shrink C by 90 GB, and create a new logical partition from the unallocated space to use for Windows 8.
Partition / Extended : Logical Drives
The problem you had with all of this is that your HP computer came with 4 primary partitions already setup on the disk, which is the limit for a "basic" disk. That's why it wanted to convert the disk to dynamic. The tutorial above will let you workaround this by using an extended logical partition instead, and still keep it as a basic disk.
Now that you have fixed it, Do you understand what you did and how it happened ?
As Brink explained .
Didn`t you get a message telling you that your disk would be made Dynamic and Windows may not be able to boot ?
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