Beware (Basic Vs Dynamic)

So you buy a new laptop with latest Win 7 in it. You are excited and you notice that there is this big C Drive with all the space. The first thing that comes in your head is why don't I make partitions. You go to disk management and guess what you make the partitions. But during that process you are ignoring or forgetting something. A dialogue comes in between the partition process which says that we will convert your disk from Basic to Dynamic. You click OK and then you just sit back and relax with your partitioned hard disk.

Well guess what, have you tried using F11 or whatever recovery button your laptop has after this partition has completed. Well i have, and you know what, it doesn't work. And many people never know about this because they rarely use the recovery button. But once they do, they get a big question mark that is that so ?

Actually a dynamic drives disables you to boot from your recovery disk and it makes drive C as its primary disk to reboot, now since there is no setup of new windows installed in your C drive so the F11 doesn't work. If many of you know this, that is good news, i am just sharing this post for those who have no idea about this.

You can download a trial version of Partition Magic Tool for this purpose which won't change your disk from basic to dynamic.

I hope this will help many.