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Why convert dynamic disk to basic disk?

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Why convert dynamic disk to basic disk?

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Although dynamic disks contains many advantages than the basic disks, it also provides some problems as bellow: 1. If you converted basic disk to dynamic, you cannot delete these dynamic volumes and reinstall Microsoft Windows operating system with system CD/DVD. 2. You cannot convert dynamic disk to basic disk without data losing in Disk Management, as you need to delete all dynamic volume firstly before converting. 3. In most conditions the dynamic volume still cannot be extended, especially for the system volume, many people would encounter this problem if they need to increase dynamic disk. But due to the limitation of Disk Management, only Simple Volume and Spanned Volume can be extended. Moreover, there is no third-party product can resize dynamic disk directly. In Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, you can shrink and expand basic partition online, without data losing, so you don’t need dynamic disk for partition resizing. Now the hard drive price is lower and lowe

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