There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at both ...

A Windows hard disk configuration that supports RAID architectures for high performance and fault tolerance, as well as spanning (treating multiple physical disks as one). Striping (RAID 0) splits the ...

Does this mean without a doubt that once you use software raid and then disable it, your disk will never be like a disk that just went basic->dynamic? Ie activing software raid permanently changes ...

To convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk without losing data, you may use the free edition of NIUBI Partition Editor. The software offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach to disk conversion, ...

Hmm, my main PC motherboard died so I decided to just recycle some of the hardware and make a new machine. My old machine was Windows XP SP3 and the new machine is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I had a data ...