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Make a dynamic particion -> basic for free without losing files

TECH J
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As much as I don't trust the curriculum I was taught in college about basic computer maintenance because a lot of it was genuinely wrong, according to it a Dynamic disk cannot be reverted into a Basic disk again. You'd have to copy your data elsewhere, wipe the disk (remove the partitions) and put a new basic partition back.

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2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

As much as I don't trust the curriculum I was taught in college about basic computer maintenance because a lot of it was genuinely wrong, according to it a Dynamic disk cannot be reverted into a Basic disk again. You'd have to copy your data elsewhere, wipe the disk (remove the partitions) and put a new basic partition back.

There are some utilities that promise this transformation without losing data,but i have to pay..

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15 minutes ago, TECH J said:

There are some utilities that promise this transformation without losing data,but i have to pay..

Do you have a spare drive you can dump the data to temporarily? Software is often expensive.

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11 minutes ago, TECH J said:

Fuuuuckk,300 gb copy and paste,that's pain in the ass for sure..

Is it over USB or is it over SATA?

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15 minutes ago, TECH J said:

Fuuuuckk,300 gb copy and paste,that's pain in the ass for sure..

I've been copying 6 TB around the past day, because I was upgrading/switching storage. Sacrifices have to be made :P

 

Anyway, MiniTool Partition Wizard can apparently do it. However, it would be wise to make a backup before you attempt to do any in-place conversion.

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Just been doing an integrity / file contents check between my main 12TB storage and each of its 2 backups, 24hrs for each :P

And that's in preparation for when I receive my new drives next week that will bring my storage to 32TB... so will have to replace internal drives, copy one of the backups onto them, then swap the 2 backup sets and rebuild them as well... aka another 3 full 24hr operations ahead :P

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