I Accidentally Converted Basic Volume to Dynamic Volvume

[guitarmatt99]

Hello, I had 50gb of unallocated volume so I right clicked storage, extend volume, clicked okay and now It is all showing as dynamic volume? What does this mean for my HDD? Also, why are there two storage partitions?

Also, Ignore Disk 0 in the picture, that's my SSD.

 

[dodger46]

Hello, I had 50gb of unallocated volume so I right clicked storage, extend volume, clicked okay and now It is all showing as dynamic volume? What does this mean for my HDD? Also, why are there two storage partitions?

Also, Ignore Disk 0 in the picture, that's my SSD.

Seems it's not a good idea to have Windows on a Dynamic Disk
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/172066-basic-vs-dynamic-volume.html
Also seems you won't be able to revert to Basic without using 3rd party Software like EaseUs
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
Never seen a drive with two partitions using the same letter! Perhaps you inadvertently created some sort of RAID, but that's normally only achieved with more than one physical drive...

 

[guitarmatt99]

Windows 7 is going off my HDD, I dont use it, it dynamic okay for storage?

 

[dodger46]

Windows 7 is going off my HDD, I dont use it, it dynamic okay for storage?

Don't see why not, though if you have nothing of value on them you could revert to Basic, not sure how you would use the 2nd D unless you can assign it a different Drive Letter...

 

[guitarmatt99]

Don't see why not, though if you have nothing of value on them you could revert to Basic, not sure how you would use the 2nd D unless you can assign it a different Drive Letter...

I have 150gb+ worth of games, and with my slow internet I won't be re downloading them anytime soon! As long as there is no downsides I'm fine with how it is, eventually I will get a new 1tb drive so I can have all my games downloaded.