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(Solved) Managing partitions of the internal HD
Lady:
Alright Julian, that post of yours is just all Chinese to me..... :confused:
I read some about dynamic and basic disks but couldn't find what is actually the problem or risk of having dynamic disks. Can you tell me?
I have a bit of a problem with asking my friend, the head of the tech dept of my pc shop, to fix this because sometimes I get doubts about his expertise. I showed HIM a few tricks or solved something he couldn't. Minor stuff, of course, but still... I'm gonna test him with this new knowledge I have about the disks. :tongue: Just to say I'd rather do this myself. With you guys.
I found this piece of info. Do you think I could work with that? Because there are special programs for it but I read people having problems with them.
From: http://incisiveradar.com/how-to-convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk/
Converting Dynamic disks to Basic Disks in Windows:
Before converting the dynamic disks into basic disks in Windows, I would recommend you to create a recovery media of your operating system and move the other important files into an external hard drive. Once you are ready, you can use the following steps to convert dynamic disks to basic disks.
Step 1: Open the Run dialog box by using the hot key combination Windows Logo Key + R
Step 2: In the Run dialog box type in diskmgmt.msc and hit enter.
Step 3: Now in the Disk Management window look for the dynamic disk you want to convert into a basic disk.
Step 4: Right click on each volume of the corresponding dynamic disk and click Delete Volume for each volume on the disk.
Step 5: When you have completed deleting all the volumes, right click on those disks and select Convert to Basic Disk.
Since my E: only contains music files I assume I don't run a real risk of getting into problems systemwise. Is that correct? It would be similar to making a new partition, wouldn't it? Just back up the files (which I already have, twice, on my 2 external HDDs), delete the volume, convert them to basic disks, paste the two E: disks together with Minitool and put the files back.
Piece of cake or what? :cheesy:
Lady:
Julian, can you give me the green light to what I suggested? It's rather a scary thing to do, you know.
Maybe I should use Minitool instead of Windows Disk Management?
Julian:
--- Quote from: Lady on September 17, 2015, 01:35:37 am ---Julian, can you give me the green light to what I suggested? It's rather a scary thing to do, you know.
Maybe I should use Minitool instead of Windows Disk Management?
--- End quote ---
it is a scary thing to do I'm looking at d as well and it looks to be the same partition type as well I don't know why the partitions were setup that way best thing is to back up the hdd before messing with partitions . I just don't want you to delete the music drive and it messing with the d drive as well. I normally have a primary partition and have the folders redirected to another hdd I'll show you in a bit because I'm on my phone at the moment.
Lady:
Before you put your energy in explaining your suggestion, let me try to get in touch with the head of the tech dept of my pc shop where I bought the custom-made desktop pc. I asked them to partition the internal HDD into C:, D: and E:. I'll ask him why they did that. I have no idea what your suggestion is like, sounds pretty far-out to me (sorry), but I prefer to get it all back to 3 basic partitions.
I always have all my data of D: and E: backed up at least twice, so nothing to worry there. So if deleting E: means interference with D:, that's okay, because D:'s volume has to be deleted as well for it to be turned into a basic disk too. So my idea was to delete both volumes of D: and E: and change them back into basis disks and add the data again. Wouldn't that work?
Actually, the longer I'm on this Partition Adventure (or Partition Expotition as Winnie the Pooh would have said, hahaha), the more I think it's gonna be a breeze. :cheesy: What's the worst that could happen? A total crash? C: won't be touched, so......Or am I being overconfident? :smiley:
And I still don't know what's so bad about having dynamic disks. All I read was that advanced users could do more things with them.
Lady:
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Hey! I got one karma point!!! My first! Yoohooo!
Errr.....how exactly did I get that?
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