Converting Dynamic to Basic

Ned157

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Howdy there all! Here's my problem. I have a 1TB WD and 80GB WD in my computer and I installed aWin7 retail to the 80 through the Win7 RC that was on my TB and when I tryed to format the TB for storage space it wouldn't let me do it.

I started fiddling around with the Diskpart in command prompt and ended up changing the TB to a dynamic disk. I've managed to format the TB but I want to convert it back to a basic disk but Diskpart keeps giving me things like
"Virtual Disk Service error: Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume"
and I'm rather confused by this.
I've googled how to delete system disks, volumes, partitions, you name it and have come up blank. And everything I try in Diskpart or the disk management isn't do a darn thing just keeps giving me errors.

So the question is, how do i delete the "system" files and convert my TB back to a basic drive.
 
Try this.

Log in as an Administrator.
Right click My Computer and select Manage.
Click on Disk Management.
Delete the dynamic volumes.
Right click the dyanmic disk that you want to convert, and then click Convert to Basic Disk.
Select the the disk and click Ok.
Click Convert.
 
It gives my an error "Windows could not delete the system volume on this disk"
Would moving it to a different computer and then doing that method work because then it wouldn't have anything to think that it's using the disk for something.
 

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