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Old 09-25-2009, 11:21 PM   #1
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Cant convert new drive to basic

Hopefully someone has an easy fix to this. Brand new WD 1001 FALS 1TB SATA drive and somehow I get it in dynamic volume. Cant convert to basic. Cant delete volume. Shows up in device manager under disk drives and in disk manager it shows up too.

Ive tried deleting the volume and get "cant complete becaise the volume is open or in use".

Cant format because the "partition or volume is not enabled". Im stuck.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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Old 09-25-2009, 11:38 PM   #2
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Download WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and use them to write zeros to the drive. You need the CD .iso version to do this, you boot with the CD.
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Old 09-25-2009, 11:52 PM   #3
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Thanks GLC. Done.

Its a new data disk, not OS so I just downloaded the diagnostic and ran the write zeros and used quick erase option. Thankfully that did it quickly and now I wait for formating.

What a PITA. I spent 2 hours googling this. How does this driive come in dynamic and why isnt there a simple way in XP to switch it back to basic? Rhetorical of course cause it doesnt make a dif now.

Thats 2 hours of my life I'll never get back:-)

GLC... Thanks.
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Old 09-26-2009, 12:19 AM   #4
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It doesn't come in dynamic or basic, it comes blank - somehow you made the wrong choice when you initialized it.
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