Help! I changed something in Disk Management.

I don't know what I did. I have one physical hard drive that I partitioned in three partitions when I installed Windows 7 RC (and a 4th "System Reserve, created by Windows). Windows 7 is installed on the first partition, the other two has not been formatted yet. Then today, I went in to Disk Management to change the size of the partitions and to add another one (for other test installations of Windows).

As I played around with sizes, I deleted, created and shrunk the various unused partitions. All of a sudden after I did something, all the partitions now no longer say "Primary Partition". The blue color on top of the partitions also changed to a yellow/brownish color. My guess is that they have been converted to a Simple Volume instead of a Basic Volume, so that a partition could be spread out on both sides of another partition. The disk itself is still a Dynamic Disk. But by right-clicking I can't see anywhere where to convert a Simple Volume to a Basic Volume, if that is even what I should do.

Does anyone know what I did, and how I can get things back to how they were. Did I do any harm?

I'm a bit confused about the terminology, Simple Volume, Basic Volume, Basic Disk, Dynamic Disk, Primary Partition, Extended Partition etc.

Thanks for any help.

[quotemsg=3408,2,378142]Hi D
Repartition the other space as primary also, however, do not set to active. You should only have one active partition.

Hi starams5,

I don't think I should need any additional partitioning software. My needs are very modest. I just need to create 4 partitions on the same drive, not resize existing partitions etc.

Do you, or anyone else, know how to change a Simple Volume back to a Primary Partition? In XP, I think you could to do this by right-clicking, but no such option in Win 7?

I now have one partition with my Windows 7 installation, which says it's a Simple Volume on a Dynamic Disk. The rest of the space is unallocated. There's also a 100 MB System reserved partition. How can I change my main C: partition back to a Primary Partition instead of a Simple Volume?