"John Blanding" <JohnBlanding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44627341-AF3F-4421-9E57-250AB6A1B2BD@microsoft.com...
> I upgraded my pc to a new mother board. Before starting that process, I
used
> Microsoft's backup utility to back up my C: drive in total to a removable
> hard drive. When I installed the removable hard drive into my new pc it
> never shows up under "my computer", but does show up in device manager
> hardware. Looking at my removable drive under "computer management/disk
> management" it show up now as a dynamic drive.
>
> I've been told locally once a drive has been changed to a dynamic drive,
it
> cannot be reverted. Obviously, I am missing vital information I thought I
> had taken proper actions to save.
>
> Bottom line: Is there anyway to convert a dynamic drive to a basic NTFS
> hard drive?

Your backup drive became dynamic when you partitioned it.
This can be quite unobtrusive - it's happened to me too. The
only way to revert to a basic disk is to repartition it.