The relationship between basic and dynamic disks

First, the reference is different.

1. Dynamic disk: refers to the local hard disk upgraded in the disk manager of the Windows operating system.

2. Basic disks: physical disks that can be accessed by MS-DOS and all Windows-based operating systems.

Second, the partitioning method is different.

1. Dynamic disk: There is no partition concept on dynamic disk, named after "volume", the same partition can only exist on one physical disk, while the same volume can span up to 32 physical disks.

2. Basic disk: There can be four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. An extended partition can contain an infinite number of logical drives. Partitions on a basic disk can't share or split data with other partitions.

Third, the characteristics are different.

1. Dynamic Disk: Merge unallocated space from multiple disks into a single logical volume, which makes more efficient use of all the space and all drive letters on multiple disk systems.

Change the disk capacity: Once the basic magnetic fiber or residual disk partition is created, the disk capacity cannot be changed, and the dynamic disk can change the disk capacity without restarting the scroll; Number of volume sets or cluster partitions: Dynamic disks can create multiple volumes on a disk, basic disks can only create four partitions on a disk, and DOS or windeows 9x can only be divided into one primary partition and extended partition.

Disk space: 1. Dynamic disks can be extended to include non-contiguous disk space, which can create cross-physical volumes.

2. The basic disk must be a contiguous space on the same disk to be divided into a zone, and the maximum capacity of the partition is also the capacity of the disk.

Disk Configuration Information:

1. Dynamic disks, disk configuration information stored on the disk, can be moved to other computers for continued use.

2. The basic disk configuration information is stored in the boot partition of the disk, and the RAID disk will lose information when it is moved to other computers.

Recently, many friends have heard about the two types of disks, dynamic disks and basic disks, and want to understand the difference between dynamic disks and basic disks.

What is Basic Disk?

The disk type of our computer hard disk is basically [basic disk], you open your windows computer, and then right-click on this computer (computer) management, select disk management, you can see that the type of disk is to show [basic].

What is a dynamic disk?

Dynamic Disk] is a type of hard disk configuration that is upgraded from a basic disk. In order to meet the basic disk partition number limit, space expansion inconvenience and other derived types.

Differences:

Basic disks are directly converted to dynamic disks;

Dynamic disks cannot be directly converted to basic disks (requiring the help of partitioning tools such as dynamic disk converters, and the disk data is completely emptied).

Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk:

Convert directly in our disk manager. Right-click on the desktop"this PC"Or Zheng Zhao "Computer" - Management - Computer Management - Disk Management - Right-click on the basic disk that needs to be converted to a dynamic disk - Convert to a dynamic disk;

The conversion is complete, see the figure below.

Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk:

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First of all, open DiskGenius from the desktop and enter the home page of the software;

After entering the home page, select the dynamic disk to be converted in the directory structure list on the left side of the software, then click on the "Hard Disk" directory and select "Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk";

After you select it, click the "OK" button in the pop-up dialog box to complete the conversion.

The above is the difference between dynamic disk and basic disk and how to convert the two, I hope it can help you.