With the arrival of Windows 7 beta, I figured I would like to try this OS out before its finally goes live. Usually I dont bother with beta OS’s as they are not worth it, but there is alot of good things which have been said about Windows 7, so I thought I would take a look.
The first problem I had when I went to install, was that I did not have a basic disk on my second PC to be able to install, and for the life of me I could not remember how to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk, a quick google search led me to the microsoft page which explains how to do it. I followed those instructions, but it did not work, I kept getting the message “The operation is not allowed because the requested object is in active use“.
To get around this you can do the following.
Start > Run > Cmd Press enter.
In the Command Prompt window type
Diskpart
list disk
Make a note of the dynamic disk that you wish to convert
select disk x
clean
The disk is now uninitialised, and you can use Disk Management utility to convert and format as a basic disk
