To convert a dynamic disk to basic in Windows 11, you will need to delete all the volumes and data from the drive. Here's how you do it!

And I forgot to mention, that this is the method to recover data if you have a dynamic disk that gets a corrupted partition database and becomes unusable.

Welcome to this comprehensive guide on using AOMEI Dynamic Disk Converter Full Version, a powerful and reliable tool designed to help you convert dynamic disks to basic disks without losing your data.

I did some reading and it seems that the Windows 7 machine will only read it as a Basic disk. So is there anyway to change it to a basic disk without me losing the data on it?

Learn how to convert MBR to GPT disk without data loss in Windows 11/10, using Diskpart, Gptgen, or AOMEI Partition Assistant. MBR disks support only 4 partition tables.

The most obvious difference between basic and dynamic disks lies in operating system support. While all versions of Windows--even DOS--support basic disks, we can't say the same for dynamic disks.