Questions tagged [dynamic-disk]
Dynamic disks are a Microsoft technology for allowing special features that normal partitions do not, such as spanning multiple disks and raid.
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Which software raid modes does each version of Windows 7 support?
Being familiar with the software raid modes and dynamic disks from the server versions, I was wondering if there is a document or even just common crowd knowledge that indicated what software raid ...
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Converting dynamic to basic disk
I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported.
Is there a way ...
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Rebuilding degraded simple mirror volume ("The plex is missing")
I'm interested in rebuilding a basic degraded dynamic volume without resorting to trivially breaking/deleting and re-creating the volume.
There is no concern about data loss. I hope to use this as a ...
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Convert existing system to dynamic disk safely
I have a Windows 10 Pro v1803 box with two NVMe SSDs (INTEL SSDPE2MX450G7). The OS is installed on the first disk and boots (only) in UEFI mode.
I want to convert to Dynamic Disks and mirror the ...
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Cannot extend drive "There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this operation"
In Windows 10, I want to change my unallocated space by combining it with my 731.17 GB drive. Both are on the same drive. When trying to extend the H: drive it shows a message: There is not enough ...
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How do I copy/clone a dynamic disk in Windows 7?
I have some dynamic disks (or "partitions" but they are not really partitions) that I want to copy onto spare hard drives.
I tried using gpartd (and fdisk for that matter) from a linux live disc. All ...
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Alignment requirements: converting basic disk to dynamic disk in order to set up software RAID?
On Windows 7 x64 Professional I am struggling to convert a basic disk to a dynamic one. Under Disk Management in the MMC the conversion is supposed to be initiated automatically, but it doesn't.
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Cannot convert basic disk to dynamic disk. Not enough space
I'm trying to convert a disk from basic to dynamic to mirror two volumes on another disk of equal size. I have used the disk before, but it is currently wiped clean, not even partitioned.
In disk ...
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Virtual Box Virtual Disk not expanding
I have an iMac Core i5 host computer, 1TB Hard drive, 8GB Memory.
I have created a Virtual Box VM to run Fedora 14 64bit with a 200 GB Dynamically allocated hard drive.
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Can't activate dynamic disk
For some reason I can't activate a dynamic disk connected to my PC via a USB hard disk enclosure. It has activated previously without any problems.
When I check the event logs, I get this message ...
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
I like using the Dynamic disks with striping in Windows and was wondering if I could install from a Windows ISO onto a set of striped dynamic disks.
So far in my testing, that's not possible. I get ...
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unable to recover data on a dynamic disk
I had a computer with two 3TB HDDs that were Dynamic Disk mirrors of one another. I'm trying to recover data off of one of them without success.
So I plugged one of these 3TB HDDs into a USB3<->...
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Converting Ext4 Simple/Dynamic drive back to Basic/Partition
So basically i was trying to add a 5th partition and in that process I've converted my whole disk to a dynamic drive, which contains both NTFS and EXT4 with Linux on dual boot. Now the problem is it ...
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'Add mirror' greyed out in Windows 10
Added a 5Tb drive and trying to mirror my data drive (1.5Tb). When I add the drive, it shows 2 partitions , one is 2048gb, the other 2609gb. I wish it was 1 fully unallocated partition and am not sure ...
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Partitioning laptop with 4 primary partitions
I have HP laptop with 4 primary partitions.
The second one is windows partition and other 3 are recovery, system and blah blah(i.e. unusable)
So, basically my explorer shows only one partition where i ...
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How can I shrink my VMware image?
I created an image of a Windows Server 2008 system using the free VMware Player and set the maximum hard drive size to 100GB. I then gave those image files - 30GB at the time - to a server hosting ...
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What is Simple Volume good for?
To me it looks like Simple Volume is something "modern", inaccessible by Windows XP Home. When googling I've found some problem with it, e.g., here, here, and here, but no advantages. One of ...
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Mount an ext3 partition in Windows, inside a Dynamic Disk?
I have a disk which has two partitions, one NTFS and one ext3. I've converted it to a dynamic disk inside Windows. It still can be read fine when booted under Linux (thanks to LDM support in the Linux ...
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Non destructively Convert offline dynamic disk to basic disk using testdisk tool
I had a 250GB hard disk having several NTFS partitions. The disk was a dynamic disk (created in windows).
Now when I formatted windows (which was in another disk), the dynamic disk is shown as ...
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How do I safely move a Windows 7 software RAID 1 volume to a new PC?
I have 2 identical drives in an old PC running as a mirror RAID (RAID1) using the Windows 7 software RAID. These drives are data-only drives and are not being used to boot an operating system.
How do ...
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Fedora: Access dynamic disk created in windows
I recently decided to migrate from windows to fedora*.
Now, my problem is that my main disk was a dynamic disk. I thought I had a vague memory of this working in linux (to be specific, fedora 16), but ...
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Recover data from Dynamic Disk (MBR) bigger than 2TB
Here is the situation: Promise Array FastTrak TX4310 with 3 disks (750 GB each) in RAID5. This comes to around 1500 GB of data.
Last week I had the idea of expanding the RAID with an additional 750 ...
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Does Windows 7 support TRIM for Spanned Dynamic Disks?
Windows 7 supports TRIM for an individual SSD, but does it work with two SSDs merged together as a Spanned Dynamic Disk?
"Dynamic Disk" is Microsoft's proprietary version of LVM.The equivalent ...
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Import foreign disks in RAID-0 config
I've to import 2 disks in RAID-0 into another computer. Both source and target PC run Win8. In the target PC I see two foreign dynamic disks and when I right-click on any of those and then I select "...
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How to merge dynamic partitions
I've resized one of my partitions many times using the MiniTool Partition Wizard.
But now I find myself with very many partitions on my drive as shown in the picture, many of them labelled as Drive D....
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win7 dynamic disk set
I have 3 disk set up where disk1 is OS boot drive. disk2 & disk3 is a dynamic mirror.
what happens if my boot drive is corrupted ? can I just bring the dynamic set to another machine ?
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Disk Appears as Dynamic Unreadable in Disk Management
I have 2 hard disks in my system, both Hitachi. I formatted the 160 GB HDD but now its showing other (1 TB HDD) as "Dynamic disk" and data is unaccessible. Partitions are not being shown either. I don'...
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Does Windows 7 Support Removing Disks from a Spanned Volume?
I would like to use Spanned Volumes in Windows 7 to present a number of disks (or iSCSI LUNs) as a single volume. I like to maintain flexibility in my setups however.
Is it possible to remove a disk ...
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How to install Linux on a dynamic disk without losing the disk configuration?
I have Windows 7 installed and a dynamic disk. I want to install Ubuntu but I have the following constraints:
I don't want to lose any data.
I don't want to lose my current Windows installation.
If I ...
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Reconstruct Dynamic Disk Array using removable devices
I had a 4-HDD stripe array disk. All HDDs were internal. The dynamic disk was created using Windows 7. My motherboard fried, and I bought a replacement. But what do you know, it's only got 2 sata ...
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Windows and Linux confusing and different partition info
I removed my old OS to install Windows and Ubuntu alongside each other and faced a problem. Here are the steps that I did and the problem I am facing:
Formatted the C drive and installed Windows 10.
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Arch linux and dynamic disks?
Good day everyone
I have recently discovered that my hard drive is a dynamic disk (thanks to sh*tty Windows doing its thing). And, well, that essentially renders it impossible to install any linux ...
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Windows: creating a virtual drive out of a physical partition
Under Windows, is there a way to create a virtual device recognized as a disk drive, which would map to a single partition on a physical drive? It is my understanding that Windows doesn't treat all ...
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Access a windows dynamic hard drive through a virtual machine on ubuntu?
I have a Windows 7 OS and am thinking about transitioning to a dual boot set up with Ubuntu 12.04. From what I recall, it is not possible to natively access Dynamic Windows Partitions in a Linux OS.
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I am unable to create dynamic disks in Windows 7
I have recently installed Win7 in my lenovo laptop. So, I could make 2 drives and one of which has got win7. Now as I want to create more disks, I first shrunk the drive from 300 GB to 100 GB.
Now I ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 with Windows 8- Dynamic Disk
I have a HP Pavilion dm4 notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. Recently, I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my notebook, but while installing, it only allowed me to insatll ...
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Can I unplug a failing dynamic disk and plug it into another computer?
I just wondered if it is possible to unplug a dynamic disk (hard drive) and plug it into another computer?
The reason I ask is that one of my HDDs with Windows on it is about to fail, and I don't ...
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moving dynamic disk from Windows to another Windows computer when original Windows is not available
How do I mount dynamic disk on new system without access to the old OS ?
I need to move Dynamic data disk from old Windows XP (Pro, SP3) system, where disk crashed, to new Windows system without ...
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What happens to a Windows Dynamic Drive
In my windows (Windows 7) I have two primary logical volumns, One is on a SSD harddrive for my operating system and installed software, and my other is a Dynamic volume for my stored media. (I do alot ...
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Deleting dynamic partitions completely
I installed Windows 7 (64 bit) on my computer; I was trying to extend the 3rd partition into a logical one to install Linux as a dual boot but somehow my disk ended becoming a dynamic one.
I tried ...
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Why do I need to reactivate my dynamic disk after a reboot?
I have added a dynamic disk to a W2K3 machine.
It is correctly connected and displayed in the iScsi Initiator and correctly binded. However, I need to reactivate it in the Manage disks console after ...
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After changing disk to dynamic Windows 7 doesn't boot
I shrunk a partition in hard disk. And there was a unallocated space. Then I made a partition from that unallocated space. After doing this whole disk was converted to dynamic type.
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Why making a new new partition cause the hard drive to turn into dynamic drive?
So, I was trying to make a new partition using the Windows 7 built in Disk Manager on a HP desktop computer with Windows 7 pre-installed and stuffs. When finishing the new partition wizard, there is ...
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Gparted recognizes four partitions as one single partition
I was trying to install Ubuntu 11.04. But Gparted did not recognize my machine partitions correctly.
This is how Windows 7 Disk Manager showed partitions:
Volume---------------------File System----...
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Repairing 11 years old HDD - dynamic disc
I would ask you is possible at home repair and read data from disc Seagate ST31000528AS which was not used for almost 11 years. I found this disc at home so I connect it to notebook via USB adapter. ...
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How to merge various partitions on a disk into a single one ? (without data loss)
I'm trying to install Windows 8.1, alongside Windows 10. I have a single HDD on which I want to do this. This HDD is a dynamic disk with 4 partitions, one The system reserved, one with the OS ...
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(How) can I "reactivate" a dynamic disk spanned accross two physical disks (connected via USB) from another computer?
I built a new system that has a RAID 5 array and I wish to recover files that were stored on my previous computer's spanned dynamic disk system. That system is not bootable, so I cannot start it up ...
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Can I have both Windows dynamic disk partition and some other non-Windows partition on the same disk?
When a basic Windows disk is converted to dynamic, Windows creates a partition that span the whole disk with the type of "Windows LVM" and manages its dynamic partitions within this space. So even if ...
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how to make a bootable partition on an external hard drive? or solve my dynamic disk woes
I have a 250 gig external hard drive and I need to make a small partition on it and run Ubuntu live from it to recover files from a corrupt hard drive that Windows can no longer read. I want to make ...
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Will Trim still work if creating a spanned volume of two disks (NOT AS RAID)
Scenario: Just bough a 40 gig SSD, don't want to reinstall OS
Proposed solution: Convert existing HDD and new SSD to a spanned dynamic disk volume, having the SSD being the first part of said volume, ...
