Question how can I backup and recover windows10 on adynamic disk

Feb 13, 2025
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A few years ago, I cloned my windows 10 to WD 1tb SSD, somehow during the process or accidental wrong selection the disk became a dynamic disk
I have backed up my full system image to a980g hard disk, but media creation fails to create a usb recovery image, I have a new Crucible 1 tb disk which I want to my image to (not as Dynamic), I don't want to risk losing my operating programs and family users, 3rd party cloning refuse to work with dynamic disk. So, I am uncertain what to safely do.
Would appreciate help from someone who has experience with this.
Patronic
 
A few years ago, I cloned my windows 10 to WD 1tb SSD, somehow during the process or accidental wrong selection the disk became a dynamic disk
I have backed up my full system image to a980g hard disk, but media creation fails to create a usb recovery image, I have a new Crucible 1 tb disk which I want to my image to (not as Dynamic), I don't want to risk losing my operating programs and family users, 3rd party cloning refuse to work with dynamic disk. So, I am uncertain what to safely do.
Would appreciate help from someone who has experience with this.
Patronic
What 3rd party tools have you tried?
Macrium Reflect, Acronis, EaseUS, etc....

And an Image may be what you want to do, instead of "clone".
Yes, there is a difference.
 
What 3rd party tools have you tried?
Macrium Reflect, Acronis, EaseUS, etc....

And an Image may be what you want to do, instead of "clone".
Yes, there is a difference.
Thanks for your suggestion, I had tried these free tools and none of them would clone a dynamic disk, suggesting that the disk be turned back to basic which would be destructive, I think it was Anomie that offered to convert the disk from Dynamic back to Basic using a paid version but warned there was a possibility of data loss and I should backup.
I made a full windows image backup to a 1g external hdd, then I used windows creation media to a 8g usb (I thought an empty) drive this failed twice but after formatting NTFS and selected this computer, it worked.
I decided to try to recover to a new crucial 1tb and remove and save the original in case of failure, ( I have never used recovery before) so booting to the usb which wants to create a new window, at the bottom of the screen was " repair this computer". Left it running all night, and by morning I had a recovered system to a new ssd and to all appearances just as good as a cloning.
So never tick Dynamic disk, when preparing a new disk, its trouble.
regards all