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Dynamic Drives
I have installed Windows 7 and used it to partiton the 300 gb hard drive while installing windows. There are four partitions:
C - 50 gb
D - 50 gb
E - 100 gb
G - 100 gb
What I had not noticed was that all the drives are Dynamic even the System Reseve (100MB) is dynamic.
What made me notice this was when I tried to use Acronis to make images of the drives. Acronis does not support dynamic drives.
The first thing I tried was to reinstall Win 7 and remove the drives and repartion. Unfortunately I do not get the option now to delete the partitions and start over.
I then tried the tutorial to convert dynamic disk to basic disk at:
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html
None of the options to change from dynamic to basic show up on disk management or using the command prompt.
Except for Acronis, everything seems to work fine but I sure would like to be able to use Acronis. If anyone has a solution to fix this I sure would appreciate any information.
Thanks