Hello, I am confronted to an annoying problem. I executed Drive Backup 2013 (Free) to make and record 4 images of 4 primary partitions on a Windows PC. All 4 partitions were of type 'Basic'. Then I changed the type of one of the partition, the second one on the disk, to 'Dynamic'. The other partitions, third and fourth ones, were automatically also changed to type 'Dynamic'. The first one remained and still remains of type 'Basic'. The OS is Windows 7 After this change, I can't restore the imaged partitions with their images. Drive Backup 2013 (Free edition) doesn't show button 'Restore' for the partition of type 'Basic'. It does show the button for the first parrtition that remains 'Basic' The additionnal problem is that I can't reverse the type from 'Dynamic' to 'Basic' for a disk on which there is the operating system. It isn't an external hard drive, it's the hard drive of the laptop. This doesn't please me. I had deleted data of third and fourth partitions and I can't restore them just because partitions of type 'Dynamic' appeared on the disk ! 1/ I would like to know why Drive Backup 2013 isn't able to restore images when one of the partitions has 'Dynamic' type. Is it because the software I use is the Free version ? I plan to buy the complete version some day, and even the Hard Disk Manager of Paragon, but I'd like to be sure that the complete versions are able to restore images in all the cases. 2/ I imagined the following to get out of the trap I'm in: erase completely the hard drive --> I think I will obtain an unallocated space on all the hard drive, on which Drive Backup 2013 will be able to restore the 4 images I did. What do you think of this idea ? The best should be if someone could do a test on an erased hard drive and verify that Drive Backup 2013 Free edition works correctly in this case. But it's certainly a lot of work to perform Thank you for your attention
I suppose free versions don´t support dynamic disks. You can check the capabilities of different Paragon programs in the web site, and compare programs here: http://www.paragon-software.com/features_custom.html?p1=BRH14&p2=HDM14Pro. But, keep in mind that this information may contain errors. So, download the trial version of the program you are interested in and check it. Also see this: Convert Dynamic Disk back to Basic Disk without data loss.
