To Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP

[Demetrius]

hello friends,

What are dynamic disks in my Windows XP operating system ? What if i want to configure them in my XP ?
Can anyone tell me how can I perform the configuration of dynamic disks ?

[Devasis]

Dynamic disk storage supports volume-oriented disks. You create the following volume types only on dynamic disks:

• New simple volumes.
• Volumes that span multiple disks (spanned volumes and striped volumes).
• Volumes that are fault-tolerant (mirrored volumes and RAID-5 volumes).

Volumes on dynamic disks are called dynamic volumes. Dynamic disks can support up to 2,000 dynamic volumes per disk.

Local access to dynamic volumes (and to the data that the dynamic volumes contain) is limited to Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP Professional-based computers. You cannot create dynamic volumes on (or access dynamic volumes from) a Windows XP Professional-based computer that has one or more of the following operating systems running:

• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and earlier
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition and earlier
• MS-DOS

You can create dynamic disks by using the Convert to Dynamic Disk command in Disk Management to convert a basic disk.

[Solomon]

You can configure dynamic disk using Disk Management in your Win XP.

To start Disk Management:

1. Log on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree, click Disk Management.

In Disk Management, the computer's disks and volumes are displayed in a graphical view and in a list view. By default, the local computer's disks are displayed; however, if you have the required permissions, you can perform this process on remote computer.

To customize the view of the disks and the volumes in the upper and the lower panes of the window, click View, point to Top or to Bottom, and then click the view that you want.

[jesse]

In the above solution, instead of first three steps, you can also

Click Start >>> point to Run >>> type diskmgmt.msc >>> then click OK.

and then follow the same procedure..... for disk management to configure dynamic disks.

[matthewforu]

Use this microsoft kb for configuring dynamic disk in the windows .xp
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424