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Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk: Storage Services; Local File Systems
I was looking all over for this and found the solution at TechNet. I had a disk that was a slave drive from a dead computer, and I want to make this 1TB hard drive the new drive for a computer. When I tried to install Windows via the Windows 7 DVD, I got the error
windows cannot be installed to this disk space. the partition contains one or more dynamic volumes.
Here’s the fix when only having the Win7 DVD-
When the first Windows installer image appears, select to “Repair” the copmuter, then the Command Line.
Using a command line
- Back up all volumes on the disk you want to convert from dynamic to basic.For more information about backing up volumes, see Related Topics.
- Open Command Prompt.
- Type:diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type:list disk
Make note of the dynamic disk you want to convert to a basic disk.
- At the DISKPART prompt, type:select diskn
- At the DISKPART prompt, type:detail diskn
- For each volume on the disk, at the DISKPART prompt, type:select volume=n
and then type:
delete volume
- At the DISKPART prompt, type:select diskn
Specify the disk number of the disk that you want to convert to a basic disk.
- At the DISKPART prompt, type:convert basic
via Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk: Storage Services; Local File Systems.
