Converting dynamic to basic disk

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Published on 2009-11-04T23:48:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 3:43 UTC
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I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported.

Is there a way to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing data on already existing partition?

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