A hard disk can contain one or more logical regions called partitions. Partitions are created when the user formats a hard disk as a basic disk. Windows also supports dynamic disks.
Difference between Dynamic Disks and Basic Disks
To understand the features of dynamic disks as against the basic disk, check out the Microsoft Library here.
Basic Disks :-
Basic Disk type is a type of storage most often used in Windows and Linux. It contains the Primary, Extended and Logical drives that we have been using for years.
According to Microsoft, we can do the following operations only on basic disks :-
Dynamic Disks :-
Microsoft has introduced dynamic disks from Windows 2000 onwards. Dynamic Disks is basically Microsoft's way of saying that only Windows can run on your system, since dynamic disks structure supports only 1 OS on the disk. Although, I'm sure it can be dual booted with some tweaks.
This is the biggest drawback of dynamic disks, and also probably one of the reason why the technology was developed at all.
So, if you are going to use just Windows OS, you can happliy also use dynamic disks, no harm done.
But if someone has accidently converted to dynamic disks, and need to install linux (dual-boot with Windows), you need to convert it back to basic disks.
While there are some obvious advantages of converting to dynamic disks, as Microsoft mentions them :-
Difference between Dynamic Disks and Basic Disks
Dynamic disks use Logical Disk Manager (LDM) rather than the Partition Table used by basic disks. Another difference is that dynamic disks can use noncontiguous extents on one or multiple physical disks. While this is not possible on basic disks.
A default Windows installation partitions the disk as a basic disk, unless specified otherwise. Basic disk can be converted to dynamic disk through the Disk Management utility of Windows. Just right click on the Disk 0 tab, and select "Convert to Dynamic Disk". This is a certain death-trap if you don't know what you are doing, and that's why Microsoft has kept it surprisingly simple to kill dual-booted Linux OS.
Difference between Dynamic Disks and Basic Disks
To understand the features of dynamic disks as against the basic disk, check out the Microsoft Library here.
Basic Disks :-
Basic Disk type is a type of storage most often used in Windows and Linux. It contains the Primary, Extended and Logical drives that we have been using for years.
According to Microsoft, we can do the following operations only on basic disks :-
- Create and delete primary and extended partitions.
- Create and delete logical drives within an extended partition.
- Format a partition and mark it as active.
Dynamic Disks :-
Microsoft has introduced dynamic disks from Windows 2000 onwards. Dynamic Disks is basically Microsoft's way of saying that only Windows can run on your system, since dynamic disks structure supports only 1 OS on the disk. Although, I'm sure it can be dual booted with some tweaks.
This is the biggest drawback of dynamic disks, and also probably one of the reason why the technology was developed at all.
So, if you are going to use just Windows OS, you can happliy also use dynamic disks, no harm done.
But if someone has accidently converted to dynamic disks, and need to install linux (dual-boot with Windows), you need to convert it back to basic disks.
While there are some obvious advantages of converting to dynamic disks, as Microsoft mentions them :-
- Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes.
- Extend a simple or spanned volume.
- Remove a mirror from a mirrored volume or break the mirrored volume into two volumes.
- Repair mirrored or RAID-5 volumes.
- Reactivate a missing or offline disk.
Difference between Dynamic Disks and Basic Disks
Dynamic disks use Logical Disk Manager (LDM) rather than the Partition Table used by basic disks. Another difference is that dynamic disks can use noncontiguous extents on one or multiple physical disks. While this is not possible on basic disks.
A default Windows installation partitions the disk as a basic disk, unless specified otherwise. Basic disk can be converted to dynamic disk through the Disk Management utility of Windows. Just right click on the Disk 0 tab, and select "Convert to Dynamic Disk". This is a certain death-trap if you don't know what you are doing, and that's why Microsoft has kept it surprisingly simple to kill dual-booted Linux OS.
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