Back-up Onto A Dynamic Drive

I have a Seagate ST9500325AS - 2.5 inch, 500GB disk drive - onto which I have made a back up of my whole system drive, or tried to.

Before I started, in DiskManagement, the disk showed as a Dynamc disk, unallocated and unitialised.
As I planned to make a clone (sector-by-sector) of my original disk onto this using Easeus Disk Copy 2.3 I thought that wouldn't matter and all format information such as it being a dynamic disk would be lost, being overwritten by the structure and contents of the original disk.

The cloning procedure was evidently successful, so the final screen of Disk Copy told me.

I then tested the clone by selecting boot from USB (or equivalent option), but the computer went straight into system recovery, instead of booting from the clone which was attached to the USB port. After some investigation, reconnecting the disk etc, I found that DiskManagement told me that the disk was still a Dynamic disk, and the space on it was marked as "invalid" or invalid disk.

So do I have to use another disk ? Would priming the disk by writing zeros to it everywhere (a la WinDLG) or running DBAN cure it of the dynamic disk syndrome, or are dynamic disks just worthless, scrap value only ?

How best to proceed ?

I don't mind losing what's on the disk now, if I can make the disk useable I do the cloning process again.

The disk showed no bad sectors under test.

I am using a HP Pavilion dm4-1150ea (with standard for the model) 500GB HD, core i5 460M CPU, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 64bit Home premium. The source disk has a small number of partitions all either FAT or NTFS

Dumb_Question
19.November.2015

 

I'd like to update and revise my original post with some new info...
The first thing to say is that I didn't notice that the original disk was a dynamic disk. All the partitions were 'dynamic' in DiskManagement . So it's not surprising that the clone was also a dynamic disk (dynamic, foreign and invalid when I first looked in DiskManagement).
(I used WinDLG to write 0 to the first and last million sectors of my first attempt, and reformatted - it was a Basic disk at that time, but after I re-cloned the original disk onto it, it became a dynamic disk with the previously described properties - except every time I do something, DiskManagement tells me something different - once it said it was dynamic, offline [with a blank facing r-panel] because of a signature clash which reasonable, once it said dynamic, invalid but with a blank facing r-panel [as opposed to previously where it said dynamic, foreign with "invalid" in the facing panel])

This has got confusing as well as problematic.

Dumb_Question
20.November.2015

 

For the few interested I have now completed this task to my satisfaction

I cloned the original disk onto a USB external disk (500GB, 4 partitions)
The original disk was, for reasons I don't understand, a dynamic disk
The cloning operation, using EASEUS Disk Copy 2.3, went well, except the USB external disk did not look as I thought it should in DiskManagement, and booting from it was not possible.

EASEUS support said that Disk Copy would not clone dynamic disks but they had another product which would work). I surmise that if I had swapped the external disk for the original disk it would have been ok.

Then I followed option one in this tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html, to convert the dynamic external disk into a basic one without (seemingly) losing anything. I used the making a bootable CD in the tutorial.
The computer would then boot into Windows from the external clone, and everything looked OK as far I could tell.

Dumb_Question
20.November.2015

HP Pavilion dm4-1160ea 4GB RAM, core i5 460M, 500GB HDD under Windows 7 64 bit