It also introduces how to convert dynamic disk to basic disk.
Basic diskand dynamic disk are twotypes of hard diskconfigurations in Windows.
All Windows editions andDOSsupport basic disk.
Only Windows Server edition and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 support dynamic disk.
Introduction
Basic disk and dynamic disk can support various file systems including FAT andNTFS.
And, users can change the dynamic disk volume without rebooting the OS.
In addition, users canconvert a basic disk to dynamic diskwith Windows built-in tool.
However, this isnt a two-way process.
Basic disk containsprimary partition,extended partitionand logical drive.
With primary partition,Windows NTsystem can support bar code and software RAID.
But, Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 basic disk doesnt support the bar code and software RAID.
Simple Volume
Simple volume equals to primary partition or logical drive on basic disk.
If there is one disk, users can only create simple volume.
Although a simple volume can be extended, it doesnt provide fault-tolerance.
However, this kind of volume doesnt provide fault-tolerance.
Spanned volumes formatted with NTFSfile systemcan be extended by unallocated space on all disks.
However, it cant be mirrored.
However, this kind of volume doesnt provide fault-tolerance.
Each drive in a mirror contains an identical copy of the data.
Therefore, this kind of volume just enjoys 50% disk use ratio.
However, it offers fault-tolerance by imaging data on the volume.
RAID-5
RAID is also calledRedundant Arrays of Independent Disks.
RAID 5 requires at least three disks.
And, it provides features mirrored volume and striped volume have.
It not only provides fault-tolerance but also can help to improve read and write speed.
Recommend:This posttells how to recover data from RAID by takingRAID 5 recoveryas an example.
Converting a Basic Disk to Dynamic
Users can convert a basic disk to dynamic without data loss.
Here, we take Windows Server 2003 for example to show how to change a basic disk into dynamic.
