Is there any way to convert Dynamic Drive to Basic without losing data

[Big Dav]

after shrinking my hard drive it has changed to dynamics and i cant even install windows on a different disk,what shuold i do?

 

[kenrivers]

Before attempting any type of conversion you should back up your data first.
You can try this from EaseUS to see if it works: http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk.htm
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html

More on the topic: http://mypkb.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/how-to-non-destructively-convert-dynamic-disks-to-basic-disks/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913964

 

[Scott_D_Bowen]

If you are happy to wear all the risks associated with the idea
- http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

The success rate is close enough to 100% so long as you don't resize or move the partition boundaries, but there's always that one machine out there that just doesn't work with something no matter how many thousands of hours the developers put in, nor what the developers do to avoid it.

It gets worse as these same people don't provide any feedback to the developers giving them the free and open software (in this case) in the first place.

That said, enjoy!