Bad boy Warrior Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChunkDog Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 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.htmlRead their "FAQ's":http://www.dynamic-disk.com/dynamic-disk-resource.htmlI 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#1jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad boy Warrior Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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