How to Convert Dynamic Disk Back To Basic Disk And Why?

   

What is Basic Disk?

A physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives. Basic disks can be accessed by all versions of Windows, MS-DOS, and Windows NT. Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives.

What Is Dynamic Disk?

Supported by Windows, a dynamic disk is a physical disk initialized for dynamic storage. It holds simple volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, striped volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. With a dynamic disk, you can perform disk and volume management without having to restart the operating system.

Why convert dynamic disks to basic?

Although dynamic disks contain too many advantages than basic disks, it also has some problems as below which make you have to convert dynamic disks back to basic:

1. According to Microsoft Windows users, to convert drive with Windows Vista installed from basic to dynamic disk may result in:

• The dynamic Drive volumes could not be deleted when you try to reinstall Microsoft Windows Vista.

2. Accidentally convert basic disk to dynamic disk.

3. Some examples in the forum as follows:

• I am having Windows Vista ultimate SP2 running on my computer & want to convert dynamic type disk to a basic one, but without formatting the computer....!  

How to convert dynamic disk to basic disk?

As we know, once you changed basic disk to dynamic disk, you cannot convert the dynamic disk back to basic disk directly without deleting the partitions and rebuilding the disk under Windows Disk Management.

In this case, third-party dynamic disk convert software like EaseUS Partition Master will save a lot of trouble to safely convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss.

To change a dynamic disk back to basic disk without data loss, please follow the steps below:

Case 1: Convert dynamic disk containing simple volumes to a basic disk.

EaseUS Partition Master can change dynamic disk containing simple volumes into a basic disk directly.

1. Choose right edition of EaseUS Partition Master and install it. After that, launch EaseUS Partition Master.

2. Select dynamic disk which you want to Convert to basic disk on the disk map, click "Disk" on the main menu and choose "Convert to basic disk" or right-click the dynamic disk and choose "Convert to basic disk".

3. After you choose "Convert to basic disk", you will see the dynamic disk has become basic disk on the disk map.

4. Click "Apply" to convert dynamic disk to basic disk. After EaseUS Partition Master applies these changes, you will see the dynamic disk has become basic disk in Windows Disk Management. And then you can use "Resize/Move partition" feature to resize partitions on the basic disk. (Tips: It is important to backup data before resizing partition, because nothing is 100% secure.)

Case 2: Convert dynamic disk containing mirrored volumes to a basic disk.

EaseUS Partition Master can change dynamic disk containing mirrored volumes into a basic one indirectly. To convert mirrored volumes, you need to break mirrored volumes by using Windows Disk Management and then convert dynamic disk to basic disk with the "Convert to basic disk" feature of EaseUS Partition Master.

1. Right click "My Computer" and choose "Manage" -> "Storage" -> "Disk Management", right click the mirrored volumes and choose "Break Mirrored Volume" to break mirrored volumes or choose "Remove Mirror" to remove the mirror. If the boot/system partition is on the mirrored volumes, you can only choose "Remove Mirror" to remove the mirror. Please backup your important data before this operation.

2. After choosing "Break Mirrored Volume" or "Remove Mirror", the mirrored volumes on the dynamic disk which you want to Convert to basic disk will become simple volumes. Follow the steps in Case 1 to complete converting dynamic disk containing simple volumes to basic disk.

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Rishabh