Drive no longer boots after converting to Dynamic

If this is in the incorrect forum could you please move it to the appropriate forum. Thank you

I wanted to use drive mirroring which requires converting the disks to dynamic so posted the following to be sure I understood the consquences and was assured I could convert the drives and not lose any date and the drives would still be bootable.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4540380b-50bf-42dc-a3c0-31684509b984/converting-basic-disk-to-dynamic-without-losing-data?forum=w8itproinstall

Well I just converted both drives to dynamic and both were successful. I
exited Disk Management and reentered and it showed both drives as dynamic and
both as healthy. It also showed drive C as system or boot or something like that
however when right clicking mirroring was not shown on the menu. I shut down and
restarted however as soon as it started to reboot there was a message saying
Preparing Automatic Repair and then Diagnosing PC and then Attempting
repairs.

Then I get a message saying automatic repair couldn't repair your PC with two
options, shut down and advance options. Selecting advance options brings up
another screen with three choices. The first is continue which if you select it
it just reboots. The third option is turn off your PC. The second option is
troubleshoot and selecting it brings up another screen giving three choices,
Refresh your PC, Reset your PC and advanced options. I don't want to have to
reinstall all of my software which I would assume I would have to do if I select
either of the first two options but would appreciate if someone could confirm
that. The third option is again advance options which takes you to another
screen with six options. System restore, System Image recovery, Startup repair,
Command prompt, UEFI Firmware and Startup settings.

Selecting system restore brings up an error saying system restore could not
find the offline boot volume. Please insure it is currently accessible.

I don't have an image recovery, startup repair does not solve the problem.

Selecting command prompt and then going to drive c: shows a 16 GB partition
named Samsung Rec 2. Going to Drive d: shows Samsung Rec which is 325 MB, so assume these two partitions were the recovery partitions. It
would appear the original system partition that had all of my files as well as
the system files, in other words the primary partition on drive c is now drive
X so am not sure if that is the reason it is not booting or what I need to do to
make it bootable again.

Thank you

February 7th, 2015 8:58pm

An OEM installation of Windows 8 is actually a multi-boot system. You can boot either Windows 8 or Windows RE. I am not certain if this arrangement strictly counts as a dual-boot.

Changing an existing OS to be put into a RAID1 is not preferrable. RAID decisions should be made prior to installing an OS, not kludged in afterwards. For system with a lack of RAID enabled features, the software mirroring should only be used for data volumes... which is not typically available for notebooks... however certain models do exist where 3 "disks" can be installed.

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February 9th, 2015 12:16pm

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