Unsealed Management Pack

Hello,
We have created a custom config item class and imported the management pack unsealed into our environment. We have had the MP this way for over a month and some of our SR's have the custom config item as an affected Config item. This was one of our first
custom classes and I didn't realize it would be best practice to always import these types of MP's as sealed Management packs. I can not see the class from the DW. My question is, can I just import a sealed version of this MP or do I have to remove the unsealed
MP. Will removing the unsealed MP cause me to lose all data related to it? 

ya, Rob has it right, but just to clarify a bit:
you can't upgrade a unsealed MP to a sealed MP. you'll get an error about duplicates
you can't create a MP reference an unsealed mp. unsealed MPs can change in ways that aren't upgrade compatible, so nothing else can depend upon them. 
any class you create in an unsealed MP will never get moved to the DW, because the DW MPSync Job only copies sealed MPs, due to versioning considerations. 
if you delete the class prototype, all object of that class will be removed from the active service Manager database. 
Classes (specifically sealed classes that can be referenced) have certain constraints on what counts as compatible for upgrade, i.e. all properties defined for those classes must stay the same in all future versions. 
relationships to objects that are removed (for instance, because their class is removed) will be removed as well. 
New objects will get new internal IDs, and not "recover" any information from the old objects. same with classes in different MPs, even if their internal names are the same. 
Back to the point at hand, your best way out is exactly what Rob mentioned: Export the data to some other location, like CSV, remove your unsealed class, wait for the active database to clean up, import a sealed version, and reimport the data. be sure to
export any relationships, such as owner, created by, relates to work item, etc. 

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    E.O

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  • Enabled monitor through override not visible in custom management pack

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  • Unable to create a management pack key token to seal a management pack using MPSeal.exe

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  • Management packs and upgrades

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  • Management pack version difference in System Center - Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Help us.

    Hi,
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  • A question regarding Management pack dependency.

    Hi All,
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    Hi CyrAz,
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  • Need Management packs for mpseal

    Hello,
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    Hi All,
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