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 ...

Let's assume a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on vSphere. The VM is a file server and needs to present around 10TB usable storage. In an ideal world Windows would just see a 10TB pool since there ...

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 ...

WinXP SP2 here. I installed a 300 GB Seagate SATA drive as a second drive. Made 2 partitions on it. (139.73 GB apice) Is it normal that XP will only create the partitions as Dynamic and not Basic? OK, ...