Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at both ...

Yesterday, I had a PSS call where the MS guy I spoke to showed me this procedure. I'm posting it here so that others may not need to pay $245 to learn the same thing.<BR><BR>**Disclaimer: This ONLY ...

I have a 120GB IDE disk with a dynamic partition on it that I want to access through a Firewire interface (I have the external enclosure for this, etc.) However, it appears that, as Microsoft warns us ...

There's a saying, "What you can do and what you should do are two different things." This saying rings true for many virtual environments – in my travels supporting customers, I've seen some strange ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

If you’re getting the 0x80042444 – 0x4002F error code during a Windows 11 upgrade, it’s likely due to a dynamic disk configuration issue. When disks are set as ...

A Windows hard disk configuration that supports RAID architectures for high performance and fault tolerance, as well as spanning (treating multiple physical disks as one). Striping (RAID 0) splits the ...