Convert Dynamic Disk To Basic

I have a Server 2003 SP2 Virtual Machine in Virtual Server 2005 R2 with WSUS
and Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager installed.
There are two disks on the machine. The C drive is basic and the D drive is
dynamic.
The server OS installed on the basic C drive and WSUS and other apps were
installed on the dynamic D drive.
We now want to change the dynamic D drive to basic before migrating to
Hyper-V so it can then be backed up with Windows VSS backup.

Can we just copy and paste all the files from the D drive to a network
share, convert the drive to basic from Windows Disk Manager within the
machine and then just copy the data back without breaking anything?

 

When you copy data, security will be set to what is set at the destination.
To preserve security, you may wish to use Robocopy with flags:

/COPY:copyflag :: what to COPY for files (default is /COPYAT).
(copyflags : D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps).
(S=Security=NTFS ACLs, O=Owner info, U=aUditing
info).

As an alternative, you may consider usin backup utility which can also
preserve security settings.


"Mygposts" <Mygposts@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Server 2003 SP2 Virtual Machine in Virtual Server 2005 R2 with
>WSUS
> and Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager installed.
> There are two disks on the machine. The C drive is basic and the D drive
> is
> dynamic.
> The server OS installed on the basic C drive and WSUS and other apps were
> installed on the dynamic D drive.
> We now want to change the dynamic D drive to basic before migrating to
> Hyper-V so it can then be backed up with Windows VSS backup.
>
> Can we just copy and paste all the files from the D drive to a network
> share, convert the drive to basic from Windows Disk Manager within the
> machine and then just copy the data back without breaking anything?