Dynamic disks are a Microsoft technology for allowing special features that normal partitions do not, such as spanning multiple disks and raid. References MSDN Wikipedia Important questions Which software raid modes does each version of Windows 7 support? Converting dynamic to basic disk What ...
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Why all drives are converting to dynamic when I created one
I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my new Lenovo G570 laptop. I left some unallocated space so as to create few dynamic drives as there is a limit for primary.
So, when I created a dynamic drive ...
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Deleting dynamic partitions completely
I installed Windows 7 (64 bit) on my computer; I was trying to extend the 3rd partition into a logical one to install Linux as a dual boot but somehow my disk ended becoming a dynamic one.
I tried ...
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I am unable to create dynamic disks in Windows 7
I have recently installed Win7 in my lenovo laptop. So, I could make 2 drives and one of which has got win7. Now as I want to create more disks, I first shrunk the drive from 300 GB to 100 GB.
Now I ...
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Does Windows 7 Support Removing Disks from a Spanned Volume?
I would like to use Spanned Volumes in Windows 7 to present a number of disks (or iSCSI LUNs) as a single volume. I like to maintain flexibility in my setups however.
Is it possible to remove a disk ...
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Fedora: Access dynamic disk created in windows
I recently decided to migrate from windows to fedora*.
Now, my problem is that my main disk was a dynamic disk. I thought I had a vague memory of this working in linux (to be specific, fedora 16), but ...
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which software is better for creating and changing DYNAMIC disks(partitions)?
i have a laptop that it's 1 TeraByte hard disk is dynamic(not basic).
i want to change that hard drive with a third party program for creating new patitions.
so i tried Acronis Disk Director Advanced ...
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How to access a dynamic disk on a Win 7 computer
I have two hard drives that are used as dynamic disks on a Windows Server 2008R2 in a software RAID 1 (mirroring).
As I understand, Windows 7 (Pro / Ultimate) can also handle dynamic disks.
If I take ...
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A dynamic disk must be re-activated after boot
I have added a dynamic disk to a W2K3 machine.
It is correctly connected and displayed in the iScsi Initiator and correctly binded. However, I need to reactivate it in the Manage disks console after ...
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Gparted recognizes four partitions as one single partition
I was trying to install Ubuntu 11.04. But Gparted did not recognize my machine partitions correctly.
This is how Windows 7 Disk Manager showed partitions:
Volume---------------------File ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 with Windows 8- Dynamic Disk
I have a HP Pavilion dm4 notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. Recently, I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my notebook, but while installing, it only allowed me to insatll ...
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Recover data from Dynamic Disk (MBR) bigger than 2TB
Here is the situation: Promise Array FastTrak TX4310 with 3 disks (750 GB each) in RAID5. This comes to around 1500 GB of data.
Last week I had the idea of expanding the RAID with an additional 750 ...
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Can I unplug a failing dynamic disk and plug it into another computer?
I just wondered if it is possible to unplug a dynamic disk (hard drive) and plug it into another computer?
The reason I ask is that one of my HDDs with Windows on it is about to fail, and I don't ...
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Creating a simple volume in Windows 7 Disk Management - Warning about not being able to boot if I do so
I am trying to create a partition on my Laptop through Windows Disk Management so I can install Ubuntu on a new partition using Wubi. However, I get a warning that says something like "If you make ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a dynamic disk
I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop that came with Windows 7 installed and a dynamic disk. I want to install Ubuntu but I have the following constraints:
I don't want to lose any data.
I don't want ...
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What is Simple Volume good for?
To me it looks like Simple Volume is something "modern", inaccessible by Windows XP Home. When googling I've found some problem with it, e.g., here, here, and here, but no advantages. One of my disks ...
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How can I shrink my VMware image?
I created an image of a Windows Server 2008 system using the free VMware Player and set the maximum hard drive size to 100GB. I then gave those image files - 30GB at the time - to a server hosting ...
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Recover data from a Windows Dynamic Volume Spanned Disk
I have a dynamic volume created with two spanned partitions over two disk. Recently, one disk has started failing, and I want to copy the data inside that disk to another disk, before replacing it.
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Will Trim still work if creating a spanned volume of two disks (NOT AS RAID)
Scenario: Just bough a 40 gig SSD, don't want to reinstall OS
Proposed solution: Convert existing HDD and new SSD to a spanned dynamic disk volume, having the SSD being the first part of said volume, ...
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Reconstruct Dynamic Disk Array using removable devices
I had a 4-HDD stripe array disk. All HDDs were internal. The dynamic disk was created using Windows 7. My motherboard fried, and I bought a replacement. But what do you know, it's only got 2 sata ...
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After changing disk to dynamic Windows 7 doesn't boot
I shrunk a partition in hard disk. And there was a unallocated space. Then I made a partition from that unallocated space. After doing this whole disk was converted to dynamic type.
After doing ...
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What happens to a Windows Dynamic Drive
In my windows (Windows 7) I have two primary logical volumns, One is on a SSD harddrive for my operating system and installed software, and my other is a Dynamic volume for my stored media. (I do alot ...
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Ubuntu 9.1 and dynamic disks
I bought my laptop with Win 7 pre-installed and I shrinked a partition and created a free unallocated space , but when I was installing ubuntu It called this space "unusable" . So I started reading a ...
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virtualbox 2 vmware disk
I have a virtualbox disk I'd like to convert to a vmware disk. The disk is dynamic which makes it a lot more trickier. If I follow the instructions at ...
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Convert Spanned Dynamic disk to Basic Help needed
Here is my scenario;
Windows 2008 server on a VM
Two VM disks;
Disk1 > OS >Basic
Disk2> Data and an Installed Application.> Basic
Durng the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some ...
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Tools to partition dynamic disk
I have a 1 TB hard-disk with windows 7 pre-installed. I would like to delete, resize some partition and create ext3/swap partitions to install linux.
Which tools are available for this ?
I tried ...
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How do I copy/clone a dynamic disk in Windows 7?
I have some dynamic disks (or "partitions" but they are not really partitions) that I want to copy onto spare hard drives.
I tried using gpartd (and fdisk for that matter) from a linux live disc. All ...
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“Dynamic-sizing / -resizing” of virtual machine storage space
This relates specifically to hosted virtualization tools like VMware Server / Fusion / Workstation, Virtual Box, and Parallels.
In relation to both http://superuser.com/questions/61245 and ...
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Ubuntu 9.10+Windows 7 dual boot, dynamic disks
Ok. Long story follows. I'm a Windows dude, but have started playing around a bit with Ubuntu. I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my notebook until a couple of days ago. Ubuntu's GRUB was ...
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Converting dynamic to basic disk
I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported.
Is there a way ...
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Can't activate dynamic disk
For some reason I can't activate a dynamic disk connected to my PC via a USB hard disk enclosure. It has activated previously without any problems.
When I check the event logs, I get this message ...
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Mount an ext3 partition in Windows, inside a Dynamic Disk?
I have a disk which has two partitions, one NTFS and one ext3. I've converted it to a dynamic disk inside Windows. It still can be read fine when booted under Linux (thanks to LDM support in the Linux ...
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Which software raid modes does each version of Windows 7 support?
Being familiar with the software raid modes and dynamic disks from the server versions, I was wondering if there is a document or even just common crowd knowledge that indicated what software raid ...
