Windows 7 ultimate not booting after conversion to dynamic disk

[shreeram0901]

hello all,

somehow my hard disk partition became dynamic. i formatted system and insttaled windows 7 ultimate in the dynamic disk partition.

from then onwards system is not booting. only black screen with cursor on the upper left corner of the black screen.

if i am not wrong windows 7 cannot boot with dynamic disk. i will have to go to the disk management and after conversion of dynamic disk to basic disk with deleting all the volumes (data). it is possible to boot with windows 7.

but system is not booting...not opening..so i cannot go to disk management.

hrad disk is showing some partitions with system reserved.

except system reserved all the partitions are shwoing dynamic.

and in only one partition formatting option and installing OS option is coming while i booting system with OS DVD.

reinstalltion through OS DVD is possble by booting through OS DVD. but in advanced option repartition option is not coming.

the one partition in which i installed OS previously, only in that formatting option is coming.

in other partition neither formating option is coming nor extend.

please help

[Brandon H Supervisor]

burn GParted onto a disk or put it on a thumb-drive and boot into that

[Athlonite]

OS partitions DON'T just all of a sudden become Dynamic partitions someones been playing with your PC

[Brandon H Supervisor]

you know, it's hard to help someone when they don't get on again after asking for help

[g0dzilla]

Yes these things don't just happen by themselves - someone was playing in CMD or in Disk Management...

GParted is a good utility to try and convert the disk back to a Basic partition, as it runs as a LiveCD. You could also download and burn Hiren's BootCD and then boot into its Mini XP mode to run Disk Management from the system tools menu I believe (from memory).

[+BudMan MVC]

"Yes these things don't just happen by themselves"

If you ask the users they do -- that virus just got there, I didn't do anything.. I had just won $1000 gift card for being the sites millionth visitor, after opening up my order zip info from this company that I don't think I ordered anything from.

Next thing I know my machine won't boot because its disk is dynamic -- why do they auto change like that? You would think MS would fix that sort of thing.

But again I didn't do anything -- just my normal daily stuff.

[CPressland]

  On 11/04/2012 at 12:31, BudMan said:

"Yes these things don't just happen by themselves"

If you ask the users they do -- that virus just got there, I didn't do anything.. I had just won $1000 gift card for being the sites millionth visitor, after opening up my order zip info from this company that I don't think I ordered anything from.

Next thing I know my machine won't boot because its disk is dynamic -- why do they auto change like that? You would think MS would fix that sort of thing.

But again I didn't do anything -- just my normal daily stuff.

It's quotes like this that earned you that M.V.C badge dude! Well said!!!

[g0dzilla]

Hehe too true BudMan...

I have to deal with these 'users' everyday; who seem to never be the ones at fault??!!

[g0dzilla]

Is there a reason that you copied a line from my post verbatim, Desmond lol?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

wow, 2 weeks and the guy never bothered to get back on the forums to see if anyone replied

apparently he didn't care about fixing it too much

[g0dzilla]

Well either that or he managed to fix it, however I doubt it...

Still, a courtesy post would have been nice just to give an update on the issue or his progress!