DD Won't Recognize HD

I'm a new user of Disk Director Suite. What a fabulous product! My only real interest is in adjusting existing drive partitions as situations change. It worked like a charm on my first attempt.

However, I do have a problem with one of my drives. It's a 500GB Western Digital drive: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A780. It's' presently setup with three partitions: 146, 146 and 172.

DD is treating it as a dynamic drive. It's connected as a SATA drive, as are all the others. I'm running XP.

Thanks for any help.

Tom

 

What does Windows Disk Management show for the WD drive? Is it setup as a Dymanic Disk?

 

Hmmm, you're right. It DOES show it as a dynamic drive. Any ideas on how I might have done that? Or, more importantly, how I can fix it without removing data from the volume (I'm guessing this isn't possible).

Thanks.

Tom

 

Microsoft's info is here: How To Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP Professional

You would have to remove the partitions and then convert.

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You might also take a look at this: Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk with NO LOSS OF DATA - This is how.

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Whatever you try, make a backup first. I think there are some other disk management programs that claim to do conversions.