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On the face of it there doesn't seem to be any valid reason why given your overall configuraton that secondary drive should be created as...
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USAFRet

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Right.
But Disk Management seems to show 5 partitions, 2 of 1 drive letter (D), and 3 of another drive letter (P).

Personally, I would create folders on another drive to correspond with the differing partitions.
Copy the data from each into those folders.
Then, wipe this problematic drive completely, and start over.

The partitions tools might/maybe/probably fix it.
But the data is the important thing, not the partitioning scheme.
 
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ArtPog

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Yes, it is a "weird" partition layout basically due to the fact that the drive is a Dynamic disk. Converting it to a Basic disk (which it apparently should have been from the start) should resolve your problem in manipulating the partitions to your heart's content - assuming you have the time, of course..

You will need a third-party disk/partition management program to carry out the conversion process. While all the commercial versions possess this capability I'm not aware of any of their freely available versions that do.
 
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Ferre Vekemans

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I understand that, but it was supposed to be a dynamic disk. ;)
 
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So what do you want the end state to be?
 
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On the face of it there doesn't seem to be any valid reason why given your overall configuraton that secondary drive should be created as a Dynamic disk rather than a Basic disk.

While there may be good & sufficient reasons for creating a Dynamic secondary disk, we have found over the years that for the overwhelming number of PC users, creating a Dynamic disk in their system is little more than a curse. Problem after problem invariably arises (at least based upon our experience) from a variety of reasons, so excepting relatively rare cases we virtually always caution against its creation given the modern OSs and the relatively large-capacity disk drives we're working with today.

But as the saying goes..."yer pays yer muny an' yer taikes yer cherce"...

 
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