Hello all,
I recently acquired a new laptop on which there were 4 primary partitions of type ‘Basic’ on its disk of 128 GB :
– N=0 System 246 MB used / 1.5 GB
– N=1 Window7 24.3 GB used on 103 GB
– N=2 Hibernation 53,3 MB used on 4.0 GB
– N=3 HDDRECOVERY 9.9 GB useed on 10.5 GB
Before any starting of the laptop, I recorded images of all the 4 partitions with Drive Backup 2013 (Paragon) installed on a bootable USB flash memory.
Now, after several stupid manipulations because I wished to create additional partitions, I am stuck in the following trap:
– first partition N=0 remains on the disk with type ‘Basic’
– second partition N=1 is 40 GB and of type ‘Dynamic’.
– I can’t restore any of the images I recorded because Drive Backup 2013 refuses to restore images because of the presence of ‘Dynamic’ partition !
– disk with Operating System can’t be reversed from ‘Dynamic’ to ‘Basic’ (in fact it is hybrid because there are a ‘Basic’ partition and a ‘Dynamic’ one)
1/
I plan to completely erase the hard drive: I think it should become nor ‘Basic’ nor ‘Dynamic’ but just an unallocated space.
Am I right ?
I think that if I obtain just one long unallocated space, Drive Backup 2013 will be able to restore the images it created.
2/
I’m in search of a software on a bootable USB flash memory that would do the erasing of the hard drive.
Do you know one ?
3/
I’m anxious to completely erase the hard drive.
Do you know if BootIt could change the partition of type ‘Dynamic’ to type ‘Basic’ ?
I saw reference to this partitionning software in the following post
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread//146999-Error-Not-enough-space-on-the-disk-to-complete-this-operation
Thank you for your attention
