Windows 7 convert a Dynamic Disk and Basic Disk

As you typically know, Windows 7 supports four primary partitions and an extended partition on a physical hard disk similar with 2000/XP/2003. Of course, you can create unlimited logical drives within the extended partition. Windows 7 and Server 2008 follows the same policy: You can have a maximum of four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition with logical drives. And also Win 7 supports two disk configuration types basic disk and dynamic disk, which you must understand to configure effectively.

Basic Disk: A Windows 7 Basic Disk, that is like to the disk configuration which we are used to in Windows NT, is a physical disk with primary partitions and extended partition. As long as you use an suitable format(such as FAT, NTFS), Win2K, NT, Windows 9x, and DOS can access basic disks. Diff with NT, your change operations don't need to restart your computer to take effect (e.g. in Windows 2000/XP/2003, restart computer is required to convert a basic disk to dynamic drive, but in Windows 7 restart no required).

Dynamic Disk: A Windows 7 dynamic disk is a physical disk which doesn't need to use partitions or logical drives to manage the disk. Instead, it can contains a great many dynamic volumes which you create by using Windows Disk Management Utility. Regardless of what format you use for the file system, Windows 7 computers can access dynamic volumes directly, but Win 7 Home Premium Edition and Home Basic Edition doesn't support for Dynamic Disk.

Convert a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk in Windows 7

• Log on windows 7 as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
• Click Start Menu, and then click Control Panel.
• Found Administrative Tools, and then double click Computer Management. In the left pane, click Disk Management.
• In the lower-right pane, right click the basic disc which you want to convert, and then click "Convert to Dynamic Disk" option.
• NOTE: You must right-click the gray area that contains the disk title on the left side of the Details pane. For example, right-click Disk 0.

Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk with Windows 7 disk management

• Back up all the data on all the volumes on the disk you want to convert to a basic disk.
• Log on Windows 7 as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
• Click Start Menu, and then click Control Panel.
• Found Administrative Tools, and then double click Computer Management. In the left pane, click Disk Management.
• Right-click a volume on the dynamic disk that you want to change to a basic disk, and then click Delete Volume, and Repeat deleting volume for each volume on the dynamic disk.
• After you have deleted all the volumes on the dynamic drive, right-click the dynamic disk that you want to change to a basic disk, and then click "Convert to Basic Disk".

Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk in Windows 7 with Dynamic Disk Converter 2.1

Dynamic Disk Converter is able to revert/change a dynamic disc to basic disk without deleting partition, and it's safe and easy! a example is as follows:

1. Launch the Dynamic Disk Converter 2.1 and skip a welcome screen, and you will see its main interface below:

On the above screenshot, check Method 1 (Convert a dynamic disk back to basic disk), and click the Next button.

2. In Windows 7 system, all dynamic disks will be shown in the following list box, please select the disk which you intent to convert. In instance, the hard disk 1 (C: drive and D: drive) will be converted, and click the Next button to continue.

3. Then, you will see the screenshot below, the program prompt you confirm converting the Windows 7 system disk to basic disk:

Click the Proceed button to start, the process only take 3 seconds, then reboot your Windows 7 Operating System, and you're done!

The process is easy and safe, revert to basic disk wihtout deleting partition, without loss of data with Dynamic Disk Converter in Windows 7.
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