Cont to basic disk

[Bad boy Warrior]

I have Windows Vista installed on a partition. On a secondary partition i had Windows 7 installed however it became corrupt. I tried to reinstall and received a message that it cannot be installed on this partition as its dynamic. I figured out in order to do this i need to revert back to a Basic disk, but the only way i know is to backup and delete ALL the partitions and then convert - this is no good. Is there a way or an utility that is available that would do just ONE partition (no data on this partition)?

Thanks

[ChunkDog]

The only software that I've come accross that can convert a dynamic disk back to basic reliably is Paragon Partition Manager.

Hope that helps you out

[jaclaz]

I don't think this is the case, unless you previously made that partition into a Dynamic Disk.

There is a specific product:

http://www.dynamic-disk.com/download.html

Read their "FAQ's":

http://www.dynamic-disk.com/dynamic-disk-resource.html

I guess that before (hopefully) find the solution to the problem, you need to make sure about the cause of it, but 99.99% of the time, unless the dynamic disk has been intentionally made and is a spanned volume, all you have to do is to change the partition ID from 42 to 07 in the MBR.

Some more details here:

http://www.bestshareware.net/howto/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk.htm#1

jaclaz

[Bad boy Warrior]

Thanks everyone for your help. I read this article that did the trick for me http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:SANwWxp4hkgJ:thelazyadmin.com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2007/01/17/Converting-Dynamic-Disks-Back-to-Basic-Disks.aspx+Converting-Dynamic-Disks-Back-to-Basic-Disks&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk