How to Convert Simple Volume to Primary Partition?

Dynamic disk volumes can be divided into simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID5. The simple volume can be created on a single dynamic disk as partition of Basic Disk, but its space can be inconsecutive. Many people may make the system partition becomes mirrored volume to another disk, but have to broke the mirror to simple volume because of some other needs. The simple volume exists on a dynamic disk but if we can convert it to the primary partition?

Once, you could have converted or changed the basic disk to dynamic disk, after doing so, all partitions on the basic disk got simple volume and not primary partition though your windows is working correctly, but you cannot create a primary partition or logical partition on the disk, so you could need a way to convert the simple volume to primary partition.

Windows built-in disk manager provides the features of reverting dynamic disk to basic disk feature, but it requires you to delete all volumes on the dynamic disk, otherwise, the "Convert to basic disk" is grayed out as following.

In the above case, The third party software, Dynamic Disk Converter can assist you to convert or change simple volume to primary partition without loss of data.

Securely convert/change simple volume to primary partition.

Dynamic Disk Converter directly and safely convert/change disk to basic disk and simple volume to basic primary partition without data loss, and also it can clone sector by sector spanned, striped, mirrored and RAID5 volume to a basic partition. At the same time, the simple volume can be fleetly cloned to primary partition through it. Here will instruct step-by-step you to convert/change simple volume to primary partition through the conversion software.

1. Launch the Dynamic Disk Converter, you will see its main interface below, and choose Method 1 (Convert a dynamic disk back to basic disk), and click the Next button.

2. Now, all dynamic disks will be shown in the following list box, please choose the disk which you want to convert. For a instance, here choose the dynamic disk 1, and click the Next button to continue.

3. And then, the program prompt you confirm changing system disk into basic disk. By clicking "Proceed" start work. The process of the conversion only takes 3 to 10 seconds.

Hereby, the simple volumes have been changed to primary partitions by the converter, work well.

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