Resolved simple volume

I have an AMD with a SATA drive. I bought another SATA drive (Seagate Baracuda) and installed it and my system recognized it without a problem. However the drive was created as a simple volume which I haven't seen. Not much can be found except that it is considered a dynamic drive. The little I have found is that it looks like it is for a Raid configuration.

All I wanted was a regular hard drive. I saw one solution where the person had Linux as a dual boot with Windows and could configure the drive in Linux and then boot back into Windows and the disk was a basic disk.

I checked the bios and both SATA drives are recognized. I can see the drive and use it I just can't use it the way I want to...Any advice? thank you!
I found this info on simple volume http://www.easeus.com/resource/dynamic-disk-recovery.htm

Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) HP Pavilion
RF243AA-ABA M7640n 2.60 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. NODUSM3 1.05
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.07 08/02/2006
Drives Memory Modules c,d

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L [CD-ROM drive]

Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 7
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 6
IC35L060 AVER07-0 USB Device [Hard drive] (61.49 GB) -- drive 2
photosmart printer card reader (HPH09) [Hard drive] -- drive 8
ST316081 2AS USB Device [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 3
ST3500320AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
WDC WD3200JS-60PDB0 [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0

 

It sounds to me like you want to set this up as a Basic drive instead of a Dynamic drive. Go to Disk Management and change the drive type. Copy anything off this drive to your system drive or some form of backup media first. If my memory is working you'll have to remove the partition before you can change this over and that means you'll need to format once you have created a Basic Drive.

 

I tried changing the drive in Disk Mgmt but there were no options available. that's the first place I looked...then in Paragon Disk Manager...thanks for the tip. will keep looking.

 

I have a Seagate drive coming in a day or two, so I'm curious what model drive is it you have?

 

OK Coach ......

Go back and reread my first post. Then read this Knowledge Base article. Note: as referenced earlier, you will lose everything thats on the drive so back up anything and everything you want to save.

Holler back if you encounter any other problems.

 

Rockster2U....thanks for info. will do that and post results
Chas the model is ST3500320AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) It is an internal hard drive.
thanks!

 

Rockster2U
success! thank you!
I had deleted the volume and recreated it once before. What I found in the article you so kindly posted was instead of right clicking on the graphical bar for the menu I was directed to right click on the "gray area that contains the disk title "..... to get the menu and then convert to a basic drive.

thanks again!

For anyone who isn't already a member here....this is the one place on the Internet that I have been going to for 6 years for info on PCs when I can't find the answer!

p.s. when I saw your screen name I thought of Rockstar that makes video games.

 

Thx Coach!

 

Congratulations - nice job.