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Dynamic disks vs Basic disks

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gdebojyoti
gdebojyoti Original post #1
Dec 16, 2011 at 12:44 AM
Hello,

Please tell me the difference between dynamic volumes and basic volumes. I tried Googling it, but I didn't understand much of what I found.

All of my drives are dynamic. Will it cause any problem in the future?

A friend of mine told me that it is not possible to install additional operating systems (dual boot) on dynamic volumes. Is it true?

My computer runs on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.


Regards.


P.S.: I have posted a screenshot of the "Disk Management" window. Please note that drive I: refers to my external hard disk drive.
Alok
Alok #2
Dec 16, 2011 at 1:48 AM
See link below

Difference Between Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP/2000/2003

Here

Logical Disk Manager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and here

Convert dynamic disk to basic disk with Partition Wizard?