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Here is my scenario; Windows 2008 server on a VM Two VM disks; Disk1 > OS >Basic Disk2> Data and an Installed Application.> Basic

Durng the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some space to the Disk2. Created a new disk (disk3), converted it to a Dynamic volum and added this to disk 2 (disk 2 also converted to Dynamic volume) and for some reason these now are spanned volumes. just like an IDOT, I haven't taken any snapshot of this before I've made the changes. My question, is there a way I can re-convert this again to Basic? I don't want to delete and recreate the disk volumes because of the application installed on the disk 2

Any solution or tips I can use?

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As an alternative you may be able to use the method described here How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks

This method uses a free utility called TestDisk, which I have used several times with great success. However, I have never tried using this with spanned volumes.

It's also worth taking a look at the utilities here http://www.partitionwizard.com/ there are several to choose from including a boot disk, which is free and allows coversion of Dynamic to basic disks.

As always, if you have any data you need to keep, make sure you take a copy first. You may not need it but...

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Playing with software that will do a possibly destructive, unsupported operation on your data? A backup isn't just a good idea, it's absolutely required unless you like losing stuff. By the time you get that done, it would probably take less time, effort, and money to just repartition the disks and restore than it would to purchase and run one of these tools. For a single volume TestDisk may work okay, but with a spanned volume you'd probably face data loss. – afrazier Jan 5 '11 at 19:10
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