Dynamic hard drive

[Guest]

I just installed an 2nd 200GB SATA hard drive. I formated it as a Dynamic
instead of Basic. In fact I have no plan to use software RAID, and I just 2
hard drive seperately. Now I want to convert it back to Basic, will I lost
the information that I saved on this HD after it converts?

Wilson Chu

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Once you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, the dynamic volumes
cannot be changed back to partitions. You must first delete all dynamic
volumes on the disk and then convert the dynamic disk back to a basic disk.
If you want to keep your data, you must first back up the data or move it
to another volume.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I just installed an 2nd 200GB SATA hard drive. I formated it as a Dynamic
| instead of Basic. In fact I have no plan to use software RAID, and I just 2
| hard drive seperately. Now I want to convert it back to Basic, will I lost
| the information that I saved on this HD after it converts?
|
| Wilson Chu

 

[Guest]

Do I need to reformat the HD again, and select the HD to Basic?