loki_rising Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 Anybuddy running their disk in Dynamic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 dynamic disk is overkill for regular user. stick w/ regular. dynamic is good if you have something like file server w/ raid and like to bust your balls trying to figure that stuff out :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 What does dynamic actually do anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 He's talking about dynamic disk or basic disk. The dynamic disk can span multiple disks. If you haven't used up all of your disk then you can "upgrade" it in Disk Manager. It's not really necessary for regular people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki_rising Posted January 11, 2002 Author Share Posted January 11, 2002 one good thing about dynamic disks is that if you have a removable hardrive you don't have to scan for hardware chages in the device manager everytime you want to pull or put stuff on it. You can also make two or three small disks apear and act if it was one large disk. What is bad about them is that you cannot revert back to basic without losing all of the data on the disk. Plus thrid part partitioning tools don't like them and can't be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted January 11, 2002 Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2002 Hi, I use dynamic disks for spanning HHD - (win xp shows the 2 combind drives as one partion/ drive letter). I also looked in to stripping and mirroring (in software using xp), but alas i dont need those fetures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Dynamic disks are nice when you don't reinstall again afterwards. The Win2K/XP installer can only install a system on the first partition of a dynamic disk, and also only if that dynamic disk is a converted basic disk, means there's traditional partitioning data left. Since I install lotsa betas and instances on multiple partitions, dynamic disks are a no go for me :/ If MS doesn't prep the installer on Blackcomb to be able to install wherever on the native filesystem, ima kill'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 At the moment, I've only got one HD. I created a 4 Gb partition and installed Windows to that. I then created a 2 GB partition (Z:) and filled it with a fixed size page file - this removed a the block of unmovable data that would otherwise be somewhere on a drive with more active content. I then created a partition that fills the rest of the HD. I hosted that drive as Y: and as "C:Data Drive". Then in safe mode, I moved direftories like program files to Y:, and created a junction from "C:Data DriveProgram Files" to "C:Program Files". Doing this for all except Documents and settings which should be done at a stage further down the directory tree and the WinNT/Windows means that when I get another hard drive, I can extend the Y: partition onto the new drive without reformatting, risking data of any kind, using anything like Partiton Magic, and have the down time of powering off to install the drive. It also means I have the increased security of having all my data on a seperate partion (so I can reformat C: if I have to), but am able to mimimise wasted space by being able to dynamicly place almost any file anywhere without a program knowing the difference. Yes, its overkill for an average user, but I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 Hmm, read through that and now I'm completely confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 I don't really know why I wrote it: I don't expect anyone to... The only way to really explain it is with a diagram to two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 Go no then, make a diagram or two, cos I'm interseted in how that's all working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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