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Understanding Windows Basic and Dynamic Disks: Management and Functionality

This comprehensive guide explores the differences between Basic and Dynamic disks in Windows. It covers essential concepts such as MBR, partition tables, and how Windows manages disks. Basic disks utilize the MBR partitioning scheme, while Dynamic disks offer advanced features through the Logical Disk Manager (LDM). The guide includes practical management tools and demonstrates how to create various disk volumes, including mirrored and RAID-5 volumes. Ideal for system administrators seeking to enhance their disk management skills.

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Understanding Windows Basic and Dynamic Disks: Management and Functionality

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  1. Storage Technologies Windows Basic and Dynamic Disk Borislav Varadinov Telerik Software Academy academy.telerik.com System Administrator bobi@itp.bg Marian Marinov CEO of 1H Ltd. mm@1h.com

  2. Table of Contents • MBR • Partition Table • Basic Disk • Dynamic Disk • Disk Management • Demonstration

  3. Basic and Dynamic • Basic disks rely exclusively on the MBR-style partitioning scheme • Dynamic disks are partitioned using Logical Disk Manager (LDM) Windows has the concept of basicand dynamicdisks • Dynamic disks implement a more flexible partitioning scheme than that of basic disks

  4. Basic Disk • Basic disks are the storage types most often used with Windows • Windows manages all disks as basic disks • Unless you manually create dynamic disks or convert existing basic disks to dynamic disks • Microsoft recommends to use basic disks • unless you require the multi-partition functionality of dynamic disks

  5. Dynamic Disk • Introduced in Windows 2000 and available in all corporate successors versions • Dynamic disks and volumes rely on the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) • Provides ability to create multi-partition volumes: • Mirrored volumes • Spanned volumes • Striped volumes • RAID-5 volumes

  6. Logical Disk Manager (LDM) • Similar technology to LVM in Linux • LDM uses database to track information • About dynamic volumes on the disk • And about other dynamic disks in the computer • Each dynamic disk in a computer stores a replica of the dynamic disk database

  7. Management Tools • Disk Management snap-in (diskmgmt.msc) • Disk Management Command Line Utility (Diskpart.exe)

  8. Live Demo • Managing basic disks and partitions • Create and delete primary and extended partitions • Create and delete logical drives within an extended partition • Managing dynamic disks and volumes • Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes

  9. Windows Drive Partitioning http://academy.telerik.com

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