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 ...

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 ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

I plugged my external HD into my laptop today, after spending the previous part of its life plugged into the desktop I got rid of.<BR><BR>As I expected, the disk is listed as Foreign and Dynamic under ...

I've got a system that I'm upgrading the disk array (3Ware RAID controller) on. Both the new and old arrays are >2TB, so they're GPT, instead of MBR.<BR><BR>In order to minimize down-time, I'll be ...

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 ...

When it comes to comparing MBR with GPT, the GPT disk surpasses the MBR disk in many aspects, for example: In the following, we’ll focus on assisting you in securely converting MBR to GPT without ...