In Windows, it’s easy to the conversion of basic disk to dynamic disk, but convert dynamic disk to basic disk very annoying. This article is the summary about converting dynamic to basic disk. There are the two common ways to complete this work for you.
The first way:
The safest and easiest way is that using Dynamic Disk Converter convert a Dynamic to Basic Disk. Dynamic Disk Converter can make up for the shortcoming of Windows disk management. By using it can convert dynamic into basic disk with NO DATA LOSS, and but this conversion back does not affect your operating system bootable.
Steps:
1. Launch the Dynamic Disk Converter by using Administrator Privilege. It has a start screen, which could stay for a while if the dynamic disks on your system are too many. And then enter into the first page of wizard, here you click Next button to continue.
2. You select a dynamic disk which you want to convert to basic disk. And then click Next to check whether this conversion can be done successfully in the below:
3. Here, Dynamic Disk Converter let you confirm the conversion operation as follows:
And then click Proceed to start this conversion process. After completing, you must restart your computer to take effect.
Yes, it’s that simple in using Dynamic Disk Converter, so you can have a try!
For detailed information of the Dynamic Disk Converter, please visit the following links:
Download: http://www.dynamic-disk.com/download.html
The second way:
In this way, more complicated, and it is necessary to delete all the volumes on the dynamic disk. Use Partition Recovery software to assist you convert to basic disk. However, this recovery partition is at risk, but the advantage of the way is that the data not need to be backed up, because this partition deleted can be recovered by Partition Recovery Software.
Steps:
1. Boot your operating system from the other disk (The other disk means is that the disk you do not want to convert, and the main reason is that the volume that the operating system lays can’t be deleted.), and delete all the dynamic volumes on the disk you want to convert to basic.
2. And then, using the partition recovery feature of Acronis Disk Director to revert the previous partition that you deleted.
3. If you have only a disk on your system, it’s the conversion method that using Disk Editor Tool modifies the 0th sector on the dynamic disk. The defailed way is as follows (here for example to modify the 0th sector by using WinHex):
First launch WinHex as Administrator Privilege, and open the dynamic disk which you want to convert, here WinHex jump to 0th sector automatically as follows:
The 0th sector is end of the “55 AA”. The above area highlighted is the partition table of the dynamic disk, and it begins of the offset 0×1BE, ends of 0×1FE, total 64 bytes. In order to convert dynamic disk to basic, we need to modify the part contents in this partition table.
How to modify? Please replace all the to 07 on the above graph, and save the modification. Restart your computer, you will find the disk to be converted to basic, and if you find individual partitions lost, please recover the losing partitions by using Partition Recovery Software. Note that if your operating system exists in extend partition(this is, operating system is a logical partition); please do not modify the partition table. Suppose that the partition table is modified, your operating system will not be booted on the next time.
For beginner, we highly recommend you use Dynamic Disk Converter to fulfill your work, because this is the most convenient and effective choice.