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Accidentally Converted OS Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk.

Anonymous
2016-10-14T02:44:34+00:00

I was planning on dual booting windows 7 and windows 10 on my HP Pavilion g series. My PC originally came with Windows 7 Preinstalled. I wanted Windows 10 but on a different partition so I could dual boot. As I was creating a partition I got an error message asking me if I wanted to convert my Basic disks to Dynamic disks. I figured it would do no harm so I clicked yes and I realized I did something wrong. I want to convert my Disk with my OS back to Basic but I want to keep everything the way my manufacturer had my PC. My PC still works but I wont let me do a normal upgrade to windows 10 or let me factory reset. I am afraid my PC will eventually stop working if I don't do something about it !Is there anyway to fix my PC and keep it the way my manufacturer had it or am I screwed? Please Help!!!

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-25T04:55:45+00:00

    Could I purchase an External HDD and copy all the data on the the External HDD while I create a new partition on the Internal HDD and then move all the data onto the Internal HDD from the External HDD? I got a new error message when I started up my computer saying that my computer was doing a file system check on FAT32. All I wanted to do was create a new partition and it asked me to switch everything to dynamic and so I did but didn't realize I would be in this mess. I am done messing with computers after I fix my laptop. Will my laptop eventually stop working because of this problem or what will this problem have effect on my laptop?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-14T04:34:54+00:00

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=convert%20basic%20disc%20to%20dynamic%20disc&ac=3

    Try the above link,retype to change back from dynamic to basic.

    Seems its not possible as the HD/OS was in use...

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