What are the advanges of dynamic drives.

Luis Reyna

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Jan 21, 2005, 4:39:11 PM1/21/05

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I have read a few things about dynamic drives and it seems a very atractive
feature. However I would be very thankfull if someone could give me some
suggestions on aplying dinamic drives to a 2 x 80 GB IDE HDD PC. I was
thinking splitting multiple partitions between the 2 drives, I could even add
an extra drive. Could I get some raid characteristics. I would like some
suggestions before doing anything. Thanks in advance for any tip you could
share with me.

Luis Reyna

Jerry

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Jan 21, 2005, 5:43:02 PM1/21/05

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You could also do a Google search.

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Andrew E.

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Jan 21, 2005, 6:07:02 PM1/21/05

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Try:http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs
/en-us/dm-dynamic_overview.mspx

BAR

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Jan 21, 2005, 11:27:01 PM1/21/05

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If you have properly connected the new drive to your system, the first choice
you will face is whether to make the drive "Basic" or "Dynamic".

Basic The standard disk type used in previous versions of Windows. Basic
disks are divided into partitions and can be used with previous versions of
Windows.

Dynamic An enhanced disk type for Windows 2000 that can be updated without
having to restart the system (in most cases). Dynamic disks are divided into
volumes.

For Windows XP and Windows 2000 users, select "Basic". However, if you are
running Windows 2003 Server, you may be tempted to select "Dynamic". The
Dynamic setting allows you to do Software RAID 0 (mirroring). The Dynamic
setting can still be set on XP or 2000, but you lose the ability to perform
tasks like Diskcopy. You can convert a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk and vice
versa. If you upgrade to a Dynamic disk, you won't be able to boot into
previous versions of Windows.

You can access dynamic disks only from computers that are running Windows
2000, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP 64-Bit Edition. You cannot
access dynamic disks from computers running MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, or Windows XP Home Edition. This
restriction also means that you cannot start any of these operating systems
if you convert the disk containing the system volume to dynamic

Also, if you choose to go from Dynamic back to Basic, you will have to
delete all your partitions first.

Peter

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Jan 22, 2005, 12:55:02 PM1/22/05

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Hi,

Read this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp

Peter

mark lemon

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Jan 22, 2005, 7:16:59 PM1/22/05

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WinXP Pro allows you to create simple, spanned or striped volumes. You can
extend simple and spanned volumes at a later time (for more storage), but
you cannot extend a striped volume. Volumes also allow you the ability to
get away from assigning drive letters. You can create an empty folder on
your basic drive and mount the volume to the folder. (Name a folder Storage,
and then use that folder instead of a driver letter). Volumes are good for
storage. You can even backup the volume like you would a single drive or
partition. However, they provide no disk fault tolerance. If one drive
fails, ALL data for that volume on the other drives is lost too. Fault
tolerance (mirrored volumes and Raid-5) were available with the Windows 2000
Server family, but not on XP Pro.
A volume cannot have partitions.

Hope this helps,
mark

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