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| Thread ID: 92045 | 2008-07-27 01:26:00 | Dynamic disk management vs basic disk | garyasta (1151) | Press F1 |
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| 692569 | 2008-07-27 01:26:00 | I have been advised that to increase flexibility of disk management, I should change my disc management from basic to dynamic. What are the benefits? I have a laptop partitioned single drive running WINXP Home SP3. Partitions are; C - Programs, E - Data, F - Swap File, G - Backup. These are all "Basic".There is of course, the D - CDROM drive. There is also an unknown (?) drive - BACKUP which is still FAT32. What is this file? I run a backup aplication each day, and these files are placed in the G partition. C,E,F,G are all NTFS but, as mentioned, the unknown BACKUP is still FAT32. The big questions are, should I change to dynamic and what is the BACKUP (not the G partition) drive? Cheers Gary |
garyasta (1151) | ||
| 692570 | 2008-07-27 01:35:00 | AFAIK Windows XP Home does not support dynamic disks - so Home wouldn't install on one or be able to access one if installed onto a basic disk. | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 692571 | 2008-07-27 02:01:00 | The unknown FAT 32 section could be a recovery console, not saying that it is definately but could be how big is it? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 692572 | 2008-07-27 02:35:00 | Hi Guys Thanks jwil1. gary67 - The unknown drive (BACKUP) is 4gb out of a total 60gb for the computer. Cheers Gary |
garyasta (1151) | ||
| 692573 | 2008-07-27 02:39:00 | Is the computer a brand name system? If so as Gary mentioned the manufacturers often make a partition with a backup of the systems original state. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 692574 | 2008-07-27 02:40:00 | Here's the diff between the 2 ( . microsoft . com/kb/314343" target="_blank">support . microsoft . com) Thats if you had Pro or 2000 But then if you had one of the above: WARNING: After you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, local access to the dynamic disk is limited to Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional . Additionally, after you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, the dynamic volumes cannot be changed back to partitions . You must first delete all dynamic volumes on the disk and then convert the dynamic disk back to a basic disk . If you want to keep your data, you must first back up the data or move it to another volume . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 692575 | 2008-07-27 03:01:00 | Speedy Gonzales - Thanks for the link. stormdragon - The laptop came with XP installed. The BACKUP drive doesn't show in "My Computer", only when I go into Disk Management. Cheers Gary |
garyasta (1151) | ||
| 692576 | 2008-07-27 03:03:00 | Speedy Gonzales - Thanks for the link. stormdragon - The laptop came with XP installed. The BACKUP drive doesn't show in "My Computer", only when I go into Disk Management. Cheers Gary Highly likely it will be a recovery partition then with the systems original state backed up. You won't see it in my computer as it hasn't been assigned a drive letter. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 692577 | 2008-07-27 03:11:00 | Thanks all. Cheers Gary |
garyasta (1151) | ||
| 692578 | 2008-07-27 03:14:00 | stormdragon - The laptop came with XP installed. The BACKUP drive doesn't show in "My Computer", only when I go into Disk Management. Cheers Gary It may also be hidden / if hide protected operating system files is ticked You wont see it in my computer. Until you untick this option. |
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