Windows 7 Service Pack 1 I decided I needed a new partition and have done something that I don't quite understand. The computer still boots up fine and everything seems just as it was, operation wise, but something is not like it was before. I have a 500GB HD and originally had 3 Primary Partitions. These were the normal C: drive which I had set to a size of about 50 GB and a B: which was larger at about 400GB for movies and music and a smaller 10GB partition for files and documents. So, I go to create another small 10GB partition in Computer Management, I right click on the large 400GB partition and select shrink. I shrank it by 10GB and created another partition. Somehow, and I guess all of you can tell, I am no computer genius; I managed to create the extra needed small 10 GB partition but, I changed all the volumes that were primary partitions into simple volumes in one fell swoop. Is this a bad thing? What are the advantages/disadvantages to this? I have no primary partitions at all, just simple volumes.

You can keep the simple volumes. Generally it will not be different on normal usages. Also you are not able to convert the dynamic volumes to partitions unless you reformat that drive.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.