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 ...

As dynamic disks provide more superiorities than basic, it is a justification that dynamic volumes are widely used. But the disk management under Windows is limited, such as users are not able to ...

For most people, partition management tasks are not a routine activity. How often do you need to erase a hard drive, resize partitions or copy your operating system and data from one disk to another?

Long story short, I tried to convert to my hard drive to a dynamic disk in Win2k. The disk has three partitions: primary 50 gig, extended 60 gig, and 8 meg (for bootit). Now when I boot I get Win2k ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...

There's a saying, "What you can do and what you should do are two different things." This saying rings true for many virtual environments – in my travels supporting customers, I've seen some strange ...

I have some PCIe SSD cards installed in a WS 2106 server, but once I make them dynamic disks (prior to putting them in RAID 1), they can no longer perform a TRIM operations (i.e Optimize, or defrag L.