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 support was available for each version of Windows…
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 to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing…
I'm interested in rebuilding a basic degraded dynamic volume without resorting to trivially breaking/deleting and re-creating the volume.
There is no concern about data loss. I hope to use this as a learning opportunity to better understand Windows…
I have a Windows 10 Pro v1803 box with two NVMe SSDs (INTEL SSDPE2MX450G7). The OS is installed on the first disk and boots (only) in UEFI mode.
I want to convert to Dynamic Disks and mirror the first drive to the second. Will Windows automatically…
In Windows 10, I want to change my unallocated space by combining it with my 731.17 GB drive. Both are on the same drive. When trying to extend the H: drive it shows a message: There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this…
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 it saw was hard drives with only one partition…
On Windows 7 x64 Professional I am struggling to convert a basic disk to a dynamic one. Under Disk Management in the MMC the conversion is supposed to be initiated automatically, but it doesn't.
My guess: because of using third-party partitioning…
I'm trying to convert a disk from basic to dynamic to mirror two volumes on another disk of equal size. I have used the disk before, but it is currently wiped clean, not even partitioned.
In disk management I see "465.32 GB - Unallocated" and "450…
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 every time I try to activate the disk:
dmio:…
I have an iMac Core i5 host computer, 1TB Hard drive, 8GB Memory.
I have created a Virtual Box VM to run Fedora 14 64bit with a 200 GB Dynamically allocated hard drive.
Virtual Box version 4.1.6 r74713
I have tried twice to import a 40+ GB database…
So basically i was trying to add a 5th partition and in that process I've converted my whole disk to a dynamic drive, which contains both NTFS and EXT4 with Linux on dual boot. Now the problem is it seems like i can't convert EXT4 volume back to…
I have 2 identical drives in an old PC running as a mirror RAID (RAID1) using the Windows 7 software RAID. These drives are data-only drives and are not being used to boot an operating system.
How do I safely move these drives to a new PC?
The new…
Windows 7 supports TRIM for an individual SSD, but does it work with two SSDs merged together as a Spanned Dynamic Disk?
"Dynamic Disk" is Microsoft's proprietary version of LVM.The equivalent feature for Linux was added in kernel 2.6.37.
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 kernel), however when booted under Windows, the…
I have HP laptop with 4 primary partitions.
The second one is windows partition and other 3 are recovery, system and blah blah(i.e. unusable)
So, basically my explorer shows only one partition where i can put my data and the same partition has my…
