Wazzup with Dynamic Drives?

A Win2K dynamic disk is a physical disk that doesn't use partitions or logical drives. Instead, it contains only dynamic volumes that you create in the Disk Management console. Regardless of what format you use for the file system, only Win2K computers can access dynamic volumes directly. However, computers that aren't running Win2K can access the dynamic volumes remotely when connected to the shared folders over the network. In NT, what we call sets (e.g., mirrored sets, striped sets) are in Win2K called volumes (e.g., mirrored volumes, striped volumes).

With dynamic disks, we can create fault-tolerant volumes such as striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes. In addition, we can extend volumes and make changes to the disk without rebooting the computer. If you want to take advantage of these features, especially software fault- tolerant features, you must upgrade to dynamic disk.

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ThePerfectCore said:

Aye, nothing here on the forums that I can find. This, however, is from MS:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kmag00/html/DynamicDisks.asp

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i made the mistake of turning my disks into dynamic disks once... just remember this one thing: you can't revert them back to basic! there really is nothing that useful from turning your disks from basic to dynamic. by the way, this only works in win2k and winxp.