Well then, how to remove dynamic hard disk after users have converted basic disk to dynamic by mistake or configured the disk to dynamic? Here, we provide 2 solutions. You may convert dynamic disk to basic with Windows built-in partition tool Disk Management, but you have to delete all volumes on the disk. Nevertheless, deleting volumes will result in data loss unless users make a backup in advance. Step 2. Delete all volumes on the disk. Then select the disk which needs to be converted to basic and right-click to choose Convert Dynamic disk to Basic.
As you can see, Disk Management can help you convert dynamic disk to basic, but the sacrifice is losing all volumes on the disk. If there is not much data stored on the dynamic disk or you have backed up data before, you may try this method. But many users reflect that this method is a little troublesome and very inconvenient.
In this case, you may try a third-party software MiniTool Partition Wizard. Step 1: Launch this dynamic disk converter and you can see its main interface.
Then select the dynamic disk and choose " Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic " feature from the left pane or you can right-click the target disk to select this feature. Step 2: At last, click the " Apply " button to perform the change. In the pop-up window, click " Yes " to begin this process.
In addition, the Windows built-in Disk Management can be used to do partition and disk management. However, if you want to change your dynamic disk to a basic, you need to delete all volumes one by one. Just open this tool, and right click a target volume and select "Delete Volume". After all the volumes are deleted, the disk will become a basic disk automatically. Then you can install Windows 7 on the disk.
What's more, you can use Command Line to do dynamic disk conversion. Step 2: Type " select disk n ": n refers to the disk number.
Please select the target disk you want to convert to basic disk. Step 6: At last, type " convert basic " prompt, then you will see diskpart successfully converted the selected disk to basic format. If there is more than one volume, please do the step 4 and step 5 repeatedly to delete all volumes.
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Dynamic disks have been deprecated from Windows and we don't recommend using them anymore. Instead, we recommend using basic disks or using the newer Storage Spaces technology when you want to pool disks together into larger volumes. If you want to mirror the volume from which Windows boots, you might want to use a hardware RAID controller, such as the one included on many motherboards.
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