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Windows 2000 introduces the concept of dynamic disks. It allows you to use basic disks to convert to the dynamic disk to take advantage of additional features. When you first install Windows 2000/XP Professional, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, all disks are initialized as basic. You can easily convert basic disk to dynamic disk using 'Convert to Dynamic Disk' option with Windows built-in partition manager without losing any data and get additional features as follows:
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:
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, a third-party dynamic disk convert software like EaseUS Partition Master will save a lot of trouble to convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss safely.
To change a dynamic disk back to basic disk without data loss, please follow the steps below:
EaseUS Partition Master can change dynamic disk containing simple volumes into a basic disk directly.
Download the EaseUS Partition Master partition tool and install it.
Step 1: Install and open EaseUS Partition Master on your Windows computer by clicking the download button.
Step 2: Select dynamic disk which you want to convert to basic. Right-click it and choose "Convert to Basic".
Step 3: Click "OK" on the pop-up window and you will add this conversion to the pending operations.
Step 4: Click the "Execute 1 Operation" button at the top-left corner and "Apply" to begin to convert dynamic to basic disk. After that, you can also use this partition manager to resize/move, clone, merge, format, and delete the partitions.
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.
Step 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.
Step 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.
If you want to know the way to use CMD to convert to basic disk, you could follow case 3.