"Dynamic" vs "Basic" Disk Drive

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Just popped a 250-gig SATA drive into my PC.

Intended use is for it to replace the IDE drive that's being used for data.

The system drive is already on the other SATA wire.


When I booted up, Windows started guiding me through an initialization process.
Never did that with my other drives.

It seemed to want to default to a "Dynamic" drive, but I notice that the
existing IDE data drive is "Basic".

This new drive is internal and will not be removed.

Anybody know the diff? Did I do the right thing?
 
Per Mark:
Basic -vs- Dynamic in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343/en-us
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Dynamic Disk Storage
Dynamic storage is supported in Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional. A disk
initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk
contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped
volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes.

NOTE: Dynamic disks are not supported on portable computers or on Windows XP
Home Edition-based computers.
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I only Miss Ford my esteemed English teacher could have seen that - she'd have
gone berserk...

The web page tells some things a dynamic disk cannot do.... but why use it?

Is there some advantage, or is it just for RAID or striping?

Sounds to me like I should go back, reformat, and re-copy my data.
 
Per (PeteCresswell):
Is there some advantage, or is it just for RAID or striping?

Sounds to me like I should go back, reformat, and re-copy my data.
Click to expand...

Mea Culpa. Just dawned on me to read some old threads.

Sounds like basic is the way to go if there's just one disc involved.

BTW, from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816307
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Dynamic disks are more robust and fault-tolerant in the way they store and
replicate disk and volume configuration information. Dynamic disks are primarily
designed to always be online. For this reason, they are not available on
removable media. Follow the recommendations in this article to keep your data
online and accessible.
 
Are dynamic disks supported in Vista?

William

(PeteCresswell) said:
Per Mark:

--------------------------------------------
Dynamic Disk Storage
Dynamic storage is supported in Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional. A disk
initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk
contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped
volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes.

NOTE: Dynamic disks are not supported on portable computers or on Windows XP
Home Edition-based computers.
--------------------------------------------

I only Miss Ford my esteemed English teacher could have seen that - she'd have
gone berserk...

The web page tells some things a dynamic disk cannot do.... but why use it?

Is there some advantage, or is it just for RAID or striping?

Sounds to me like I should go back, reformat, and re-copy my data.
Click to expand...
 
"William"wrote
Are dynamic disks supported in Vista?

William
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Yes. Vista questions should be posted to one of the several Vista
newsgroups. One such is:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
 
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