What Is a Dynamic Disk?
Dynamic hard disk, that is, dynamic disk. Dynamic hard disk refers to the upgrade of the local hard disk in the disk manager of the Windows operating system. A dynamic disk is a property of a disk, and our commonly used disk property is a basic disk. On a basic disk, only contiguous space on the same disk is allowed to be divided into one partition. The dynamic disk attribute is only included in the Windows 2000 system. There is no partitioning disk concept on dynamic disks, it is named "volume". There is a big gap between volumes and partitions. The same partition can only exist on one physical disk, but the same volume can span up to 32 physical disks, which is a very practical function on the server. And volumes can provide a variety of fault tolerance.
Dynamic hard disk
- Chinese name
- Dynamic hard disk
- nickname
- Dynamic disk
- Classification
- Simple spanned stripe mirrored RAID-5 volume
- Configuration information
- RAID fault tolerant system to other disks
- Graphical transformation 1
- Delete all Volumes in Dynamic Disk
- Graphical transformation 2
- Go to "Basic Disk"
- Graphical transformation 3
- Partition
- Dynamic hard disk, that is, dynamic disk. Dynamic hard disk refers to the upgrade of the local hard disk in the disk manager of the Windows operating system. A dynamic disk is a property of a disk, and our commonly used disk property is a basic disk. On a basic disk, only contiguous space on the same disk is allowed to be divided into one partition. The dynamic disk attribute is only included in the Windows 2000 system. There is no partitioning disk concept on dynamic disks, it is named "volume". There is a big gap between volumes and partitions. The same partition can only exist on one physical disk, but the same volume can span up to 32 physical disks, which is a very practical function on the server. And volumes can provide a variety of fault tolerance.
- Dynamic hard disk is divided into
- RAID5 parity bit algorithm principle
- P = D1 xor D2 xor D3 xor Dn (D1, D2, D3 Dn is
- Win2000 Server and above versions of Windows all support "Dynamic Disk". One advantage of dynamic disk is that it can combine more than 2 "physical hard disks" into one partition (volume).
- The opposite of dynamic disks is the "basic disk". Basic hard disks can only be operated on one hard disk and cannot span hard disks.
- In XP system, when an unpartitioned hard disk (bare disk) is mounted, XP's "Disk Manager" will format the new hard disk partition as a "dynamic disk" by default, so that novices will be "hitting". Someone desperately wanted to change back to the "basic disk" after "zhongzhao", but couldn't figure it out for a while. The following describes the conversion method for students in need.
- Note: In fact, "Dynamic Disk" and "Volume" are very good disk management modes. It is not recommended to switch to "Basic Disk". If you must convert it out of usage habits, remember! Be sure to back up the data in the "Dynamic Disk" before conversion.
- Step 1: Delete all "volumes" in the "dynamic disk"
- The method is: Open the "Disk Management" window of XP system, right-click under each "Volume", and select "Delete Volume". As shown below
- Step 2: Switch to "Basic Disk"
- After deleting all the "volumes", go back to the left and right-click disk x (X is a number, which represents the disk number), and select "Convert to Basic Disk". As shown below
- Step 3: Partition
- When the conversion is complete, return to the right side, right-click, and select "New Disk Partition". Whether to create a "primary partition" or an "extended partition (logical disk)".
- A conversion method for a magnetic tool (Diskgenius) is provided.
- Diskgen and other disk tools are best to use the new version, otherwise it may not support large capacity hard disk.