dynamic disk LastModified: Friday, July 06, 2007
Supported by Windows 2000, dynamic disk is a physical disk initialized for dynamic storage. It holds simple volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, striped volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. With a dynamic disk you can perform disk and volume management without having to restart the operating system. Upgrading a basic disk to dynamic storage will render the entire disk unreadable to operating systems other than Windows 2000. Contrast with basic disk.
Dynamic vs. Basic Storage in Windows 2000 In Windows 2000, a new storage type has been defined and exposed in the new Logical Disk Management snap-in; previous versions of Windows NT used only basic storage. How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP This step-by-step article describes how to use the Windows XP Disk Management snap-in to configure a basic disk and prepare it for use. This article also describes how to create and delete partitions, and how to format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems.	related categories: Hard Disk Drives related terms: areal density basic disk format hard disk hard disk drive hard drive hard drive enclosure Microsoft Windows partition volume volume label Windows 2000 Shopping dynamic disk Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Hard Drives 5 Store Offers Security Systems and Surveillance 7 Store Offers Firewalls 1 Model Matches