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For the last time a dynamic disk in Windows has gone rogue on me. I won’t go into why I even used them, but here is how to get out. If for some reason you are stuck with an “Invalid Dynamid Disk”, unable to use the disk manager in the computer management applet of control panel’s administrative tools (or, at least unable to have it convert back to basic disk without formatting), then this is for you. ...

There is no denying that solid state hard drives have a lot of advantages. They are fast, silent and runs cooler than ordinary drives. But when they fail, they fail hard. Really hard. The Intel 160GB SSD stock drive in my Lenovo T420s failed in May 2012, less than one year after the manufacturing date. And when I say failed, I mean it. The laptop suddenly responded slowly, then after a few seconds completely froze, gave a blue-screen and died. It would not reboot. ...