Converted all drives to dynamic. How to revert back to basic ?

[satishynd]

well scenario is I got my new dell 15r laptop with windows 7 basic loaded yesterday.. so backed it up and wanted to put my old PC's windows 7 ultimate version on it. I installed it, while installation it allowed to have only 4 partitions.
it already had 2 partitions
1) Recovery - 15gb
2) something i forgot ... some 40MB

so i made a partition of 125GB for OS
and rest of unallocated space ie some 660gb could not be allocated in more than one partition so i let it be unallocated
so after installtion got completed and OS started i went in disk management and tried to make that unallocated space of 660GB in 2-3 partitions.. but it converted all my previous partitions also to dynamic. even recovery partitions.
How do i go back to basic partitions?? particularly about that recovery partition and my C: (OS partition) ??

PS: i've naive on this subject

 

[satishynd]

ok now i burned partition wizard and started from cd
But, its showing me one full 950gb HD.. and it's not convertable to basic
i can't see any partitions or other...just plain one dynamic structure what do i do now?

 

[tman69]

A dynamic disk contains dynamic volume (also called dynamic partition), if you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk by windows built-in disk manager, you will get a serious performance boost.

see this page:

Dynamic Disk Partition Management and Extend, Shrink, Resize Dynamic Volume.

 

[satishynd]

but i want to go back to factory settings .. ie basic disk.

now i've tried re-formatting but windows 7 is taking way long for installation and even then its not starting.. plz help

 

[AddRAM]

Is this true ? I`d like to try it.

 

[tman69]

read this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html

 

[satishynd]

yea read all those
But what my prob is my OS and recovery and all other partitions and unallocated space is on disk 0.
and entire disk is dynamic
Now i want to convert it back to basic
and can't do i until its empty
to make it empty i'd have to delete recovery partition and all..
so any solution to it?

 

[tman69]

Use Ycopy to back up the drive to another source, then delete the dynamic disk and set it up as a basic disk.

get it here:

Download yCopy 2.0.1.3 Free - Easily sync your folders - Softpedia

before you ask--here's info on yCopy

http://www.spacejock.com/yCopy2.html