New 2nd drive set up as Dynamic, how to change to Basic ?

[xcaddict]

I installed a second HDD (WD 80gig 7200 8mb cache IDE) and using the Win 2000Pro Disk management tool I formatted the drive and ended up with a "Dynamic" disk. That is not exactly what I wanted and how can I convert it back to a basic disk. I know that it may not be easy. I have tried to do it in the Disk Management console but dont get very far, can only remove volumes, drive letters, etc.

I wanted to use Ghost to clong my primary HDD to this new drive then use this new drive as the primary and the original as the backup, seen it is only 40gig and this is 80 gig.

Help !:brokenheart:

 

[mechBgon]

Remove all the volumes/partitions from the Dynamic disk, then right-click on its listing (Disk1 or whatever) and see if you have the option to revert it to Basic.

 

[Sianath]

If there is no data on the drive (just an empty disk that is dynamic) you can manually convert it back to basic with disk probe (support tools utility). Of course, if it's blank you can just right-click on the disk in diskmgmt.msc and revert to basic.

 

[xcaddict]

Thanks for the info. The trick was to use the right click on the left pannel in the Management tools, something I had not done, I tried to use the right area of the drive indicator and that does not do it.

It's now working well in basic mode !