Convert system dynamic disk w/o data-loss windows server 2003

Question

Does anybody know how to convert dynamic system disk to basic in Windows server 2003 without data-loss and if possible without using third-party tools? Is that possible?

I was thinking of making a mirror copy of this disk onto Basic disk and then simply exchanging these disks and changing boot.ini.

Oh, this is virtual server on VMware.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I've had success with this in the past as outlined in the following post:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=191006

I would test it out on a test drive first just in case.