Accidently converted system drive to dynamic disk

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Hi

Just made a stupid mistake and converted my main harddrive which has 2 x Win 7 System partitions & my new Win 8 partition to a dynamic drive.

I wanted to split my Win 8 partition making a total of 4 partitions but didn't pay enough attention to the warning.

Anyway, what does this mean? I don't want to restart the PC in case it won't start again.

Luckily I have backups of the two Win 7 partitions and I'm trying to create a backup of the Win 8 drive now.

Is there a way to convert the drive back without losing data?
Do I need to convert the drive back or is dynamic fine?

Lastly is there a way to backup my windows 8 licence as I don't want to waste an activation on a reinstall.

Everything was going so well on this install as well..... :o

Thanks for any advice
 
Hope I don't get my head bitten off again for lazy answer but mostly dynamic disks are used to setup software raid configs, it should not be any different to a normal drive on its own.
 
So I should be safe...

When i googled it I got loads of results about operating systems not booting after a restart so it got me a bit worried.

Doing a backup first just to be on the safe side.

So assuming everything works fine, does converting to a dynamic disk have any other disadvantages? Is it slower performance wise for example?
 
Right got an issue now.

Windows 8 works fine, but both of windows 7 installs won't load. They show up in the select OS screen but they can't locate the drives.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Edit:

Fixed it using bootrec.exe
 
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