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What happens when a basic disk is converted to dynamic?

April 26, 2017BASIC converted disk Dynamic happens

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What happens when a basic disk is converted to dynamic?

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For a drive to be eligible for conversion to dynamic, all basic data partitions on the drive must be contiguous. If other unrecognized partitions separate basic data partitions, the disk cannot be converted. This is one of the reasons that the MSR must be created before any basic data partitions.