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Old 01-05-2006, 02:14 AM
Andy
 
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Default Re: My backup hard drive was changed to "dynamic"

If you Google "convert dynamic to basic drive" there are some sites
that might help you.

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:41:02 -0800, "John Blanding"
<JohnBlanding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>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?


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