Windows 10: Can the Windows boot drive become a dynamic drive?

Discus and support Can the Windows boot drive become a dynamic drive? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; I have a 1TB ssd and a 500gb ssd. I want to span both to make a 1.5TB partition. Will this work if the 1TB drive is my boot drive with Windows 10 on... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Mike0057, Oct 29, 2019.

  1. /U/MIKE0057
    /u/Mike0057 Win User

    Can the Windows boot drive become a dynamic drive?


    I have a 1TB ssd and a 500gb ssd. I want to span both to make a 1.5TB partition. Will this work if the 1TB drive is my boot drive with Windows 10 on it?

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    /u/Mike0057, Oct 29, 2019
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  2. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Oct 30, 2019
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  3. PVR_235
    PVR_235 Win User
    how to change Dynamic drive to primary drive !!

    Hi All,

    Hope you are doing well !!

    i want to convert Dynamic drive to Primary drive without losing data.

    currently i have 4 drives (See below screenshot), i have one empty drive called windows servers 2012. so i would want to install windows server 2012 on that drive. when i was trying to install windows server 2012, all drives are showing Dynamic drives
    and i am unable to install OS on dynamic drives.


    Can the Windows boot drive become a dynamic drive? f3394ed9-af84-4808-8c27-a896a8cca748.png


    Thank you in advance.

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    PVR_235, Oct 30, 2019
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  4. LITTLE CAT
    little cat Win User

    Can the Windows boot drive become a dynamic drive?

    little cat, Oct 30, 2019
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