There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

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 ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

I plugged my external HD into my laptop today, after spending the previous part of its life plugged into the desktop I got rid of.<BR><BR>As I expected, the disk is listed as Foreign and Dynamic under ...

I'm helping my brother with a drive problem, and it's been forever since I've done this, so I'd appreciate some confirmation. He had an external Ethernet-connected WD HD that went belly-up on him.