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 ...

Heres the setup<BR>3x73gb drives in a raid 5 config. 7gb partition is aloted for the os. The rest is on a separate partition for data. I just added a 4th 73gb drive into the raid. The new space showed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...