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Win 7 startup issues, and dynamic disks
Hello.
So my problem is this - yesterday, my laptop wouldn't turn on, got stuck at the HP logo. So after some search, I saw someone saying to reset BIOS. I did. Now it went past the logo but said 'missing operating system'. I again read around and found I needed to use a recovery cd/dvd (i used win 10 installation dvd) to set my partitions as active or something. Also on advice I did 3 cmd commands, bootrec fix MBR and something like that.
At restart, it gave no problems but went into a boot loop.
I decided to give up and install win 10 and be done with that. But, I could not, it said my drives were dynamic and it needed basic drives.
Then I read some more and found that win7 uses dynamic, while some places said that dynamic are a lost cause for any Windows installation.
So, fine people of 7forums, I ask you this - should I use a win7 recovery disk to install a fresh copy of win7? I prefer 7, but I don't know if win 7 actually can install on dynamic. OR, should I use a bootable partition software DVD to convert my disks to basic? I'm told that it wouldn't wipe my data.
Thanks in advance!