Just stumbled across an interesting utility a partition resize utility, you are right I have mentioned many of these (including free once) however this offers something interesting convert “dynamic disk” to “basic disk” (something that I could have used recently).
Anyhow if you are on the marced for a disk-partitioning-software you should take a look 🙂 there is even a limited free edition.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-magic-free.html
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