Convert boot+system disk from Dynamic disk to Basic disk

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Stephen Melis

Hoping someone can help.

My boot disk (drive C:) is too small, plus it is a dynamic disk.

I know you normally cannot convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk as per the
Microsoft literature.

However has anyone used partition magic (if so which version) to recover the
partitions from the boot drive (C:) and been successful in keeping WinXP in
tacked and runable?

Hoping someone has done this before?

Thanks in advance,

Steve
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Stephen Melis wrote:
> Hoping someone can help.
>
> My boot disk (drive C:) is too small, plus it is a dynamic disk.
>
> I know you normally cannot convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk
> as per the Microsoft literature.
>
> However has anyone used partition magic (if so which version) to
> recover the partitions from the boot drive (C:) and been successful
> in keeping WinXP in tacked and runable?
>
> Hoping someone has done this before?

Partition Magic - no - never used it to play with Dynamic/Basic
situations...

- Make an image (Ghost, TrueImage, BootItNG, etc) of the C drive.
- Wipe the drive (zero-fill.)
- Create a partition (doesn't matter what file system - the image will
overwrite it.)
- Apply the image back to the drive.

** Worst case - may have to perform a repair installation.
(With an SP2 level installation CD.)

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:07:44 GMT, "Stephen Melis"
<stephen.melis@N0Spam.bigpond.com> wrote:

>Hoping someone can help.
>
>My boot disk (drive C:) is too small, plus it is a dynamic disk.
>
>I know you normally cannot convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk as per the
>Microsoft literature.
>
>However has anyone used partition magic (if so which version) to recover the
>partitions from the boot drive (C:) and been successful in keeping WinXP in
>tacked and runable?
>
>Hoping someone has done this before?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Steve
I would not be happy to trust any other program than Acronis to do that job -
sorry, however you will not regret the purchase of that program.

I think it should be the first purchase any computer user should make, next
would be a large external disk to store updates away from the computer

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
nesredep egrob wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:07:44 GMT, "Stephen Melis"
> <stephen.melis@N0Spam.bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hoping someone can help.
>>
>>My boot disk (drive C:) is too small, plus it is a dynamic disk.
>>
>>I know you normally cannot convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk as per the
>>Microsoft literature.
>>
>>However has anyone used partition magic (if so which version) to recover the
>>partitions from the boot drive (C:) and been successful in keeping WinXP in
>>tacked and runable?
>>
>>Hoping someone has done this before?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Steve
>
> I would not be happy to trust any other program than Acronis to do that job -
> sorry, however you will not regret the purchase of that program.

You omitted a tiny detail. You need Acronis TI Server or TI Enterprise
Server versions to do Dynamic Disks. TI server only costs about six or
seven hundred dollars...

John
 
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