logging in or signing up Disk and Volume Types in Windows 2003 Sunil.kr Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 629 Category: Product Traini.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (3) Dislike it (0) Added: June 17, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description Concept of Basic, Dynamic Disks and Volumes in Windows 2003 Comments Posting comment... By: live_up1314 (21 month(s) ago) But, it didn't introduced the conversion about dynamic disk to basic disk. I knew the risk of convert dynamic disk to basic disk. So, here, point it. http://www.dynamic-disk.com/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic.html Saving..... 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Additionally, basic volumes include multidisk volumes that are created by using Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, such as volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, and stripe sets with parity. Windows XP does not support these multidisk basic volumes. Any volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, or stripe sets with parity must be backed up and deleted or converted to dynamic disks before you install Windows XP Professional. The disadvantage of a Basic disk is that we are limited to creating only four primary partitions per disk or three primary partitions and one extended partition with logical drives. Dynamic Disk : Dynamic Disk A disk initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. Dynamic disks are supported in Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Dynamic disks do not use partitions or logical drives. With dynamic disks you can create volumes that span multiple disks such as spanned and striped volumes, and you can also create fault tolerant volumes such as mirrored volumes and RAID-5 volumes. Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management because they use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and about other dynamic disks in the computer. Windows Server 2003 can repair a corrupted database on one dynamic disk by using the database on another dynamic disk. With dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without restarting Windows. Dynamic disks are not supported on laptop computers or on computers with Windows XP Home Edition installed. The number of volumes that you can create on a dynamic hard disk is only limited by the amount of free space available. Windows XP Pro, Home or 64 Bit Edition does not support mirrored or RAID-5 volumes. Storage types are separate from the file system type. A basic or dynamic disk can contain any combination of FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS partitions or volumes. We can use both basic and dynamic disks on the same computer system. Converting Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk : Converting Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk It's easy to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk in Windows XP/2000/2003. You must log in as an Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. Right click My Computer and select Manage Click on Disk Management Right click the basic disk that you want to convert, and then click Convert to Dynamic Disk. You need to right click the gray area that contains the name of the disk to get the menu. Select the check box that is next to the disk that you want to and then click Ok. Click Convert. Click ‘Yes’ when you are prompted to convert the disk, and then click Ok. Figure 1 Volume Types : Volume Types Volume: It is a storage unit made from free space on one or more disks. It can be formatted with a file system and assigned a drive letter. Volumes on dynamic disks can have any of the following layouts:- Simple Volume Spanned Volume Mirrored Volume Striped Volume RAID-5 Volume Simple Volume : Simple Volume Simple volume uses free space from a single disk. It can be a single region on a disk or consist of multiple, concatenated regions. A simple volume can be extended within the same disk or onto additional disks. If a simple volume is extended across multiple disks, it becomes a spanned volume. Spanned Volume : Spanned Volume Spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume cannot be mirrored and is not fault-tolerant. Striped Volume : Striped Volume Striped volume is a volume whose data is interleaved across two or more physical disks. The data on this type of volume is allocated alternately and evenly to each of the physical disks. We can extend a striped volume up to 32 disks and minimum 2 disks. A striped volume cannot be mirrored or extended and is not fault-tolerant. Striping is also known as RAID-0. Mirrored Volume : Mirrored Volume Mirrored volume is a fault-tolerant volume whose data is duplicated on two physical disks. All of the data on one volume is copied to another disk to provide data redundancy. If one of the disks fails, the data can still be accessed from the remaining disk. A mirrored volume cannot be extended. Mirroring is also known as RAID-1 RAID-5 Volume : RAID-5 Volume RAID-5 volume is a fault-tolerant volume whose data is striped across an array of three or more disks. When we save data on RAID 5 volume the complete data is divided in 3 partitions in form of 64 blocks and with second block chunks. Parity (a calculated value that can be used to reconstruct data after a failure) is also striped across the disk array. If a physical disk fails, the portion of the RAID-5 volume that was on that failed disk can be re-created from the remaining data and the parity. A RAID-5 volume cannot be mirrored or extended. Quick Notes:- : Quick Notes:- RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID allows you to store the same data redundantly (in multiple paces) in a balanced ay to improve overall performance. System volume contains the hardware-specific files that are needed to load Windows (for example, Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com). The system volume can be, but does not have to be, the same as the boot volume. Boot volume contains the Windows operating system files that are located in the %Systemroot% and %Systemroot%'System32 folders. The boot volume can be, but does not have to be, the same as the system volume You do not have the permission to view this presentation. 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Disk and Volume Types in Windows 2003 Sunil.kr Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 629 Category: Product Traini.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (3) Dislike it (0) Added: June 17, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description Concept of Basic, Dynamic Disks and Volumes in Windows 2003 Comments Posting comment... By: live_up1314 (21 month(s) ago) But, it didn't introduced the conversion about dynamic disk to basic disk. I knew the risk of convert dynamic disk to basic disk. So, here, point it. http://www.dynamic-disk.com/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic.html Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close By: live_up1314 (21 month(s) ago) Well done, as anuruddhau said. Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close By: anuruddhau (26 month(s) ago) Its much valuable doc, and provide better understanding on windwos disk Mgtasd sada Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Concept of Basic, Dynamic Disks and Volumes in Windows XP/2003 : Concept of Basic, Dynamic Disks and Volumes in Windows XP/2003 Prepared By:- Sunil Kumar Basic Disk : Basic Disk A disk initialized for basic storage is called a Basic Disk. Basic Disk use normal partition tables supported by MS-DOS and all Windows versions. A basic disk contains basic volumes, such as primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. A Basic disk contains basic volumes, such as primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. Additionally, basic volumes include multidisk volumes that are created by using Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, such as volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, and stripe sets with parity. Windows XP does not support these multidisk basic volumes. Any volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, or stripe sets with parity must be backed up and deleted or converted to dynamic disks before you install Windows XP Professional. The disadvantage of a Basic disk is that we are limited to creating only four primary partitions per disk or three primary partitions and one extended partition with logical drives. Dynamic Disk : Dynamic Disk A disk initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. Dynamic disks are supported in Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Dynamic disks do not use partitions or logical drives. With dynamic disks you can create volumes that span multiple disks such as spanned and striped volumes, and you can also create fault tolerant volumes such as mirrored volumes and RAID-5 volumes. Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management because they use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and about other dynamic disks in the computer. Windows Server 2003 can repair a corrupted database on one dynamic disk by using the database on another dynamic disk. With dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without restarting Windows. Dynamic disks are not supported on laptop computers or on computers with Windows XP Home Edition installed. The number of volumes that you can create on a dynamic hard disk is only limited by the amount of free space available. Windows XP Pro, Home or 64 Bit Edition does not support mirrored or RAID-5 volumes. Storage types are separate from the file system type. A basic or dynamic disk can contain any combination of FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS partitions or volumes. We can use both basic and dynamic disks on the same computer system. Converting Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk : Converting Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk It's easy to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk in Windows XP/2000/2003. You must log in as an Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. Right click My Computer and select Manage Click on Disk Management Right click the basic disk that you want to convert, and then click Convert to Dynamic Disk. You need to right click the gray area that contains the name of the disk to get the menu. Select the check box that is next to the disk that you want to and then click Ok. Click Convert. Click ‘Yes’ when you are prompted to convert the disk, and then click Ok. Figure 1 Volume Types : Volume Types Volume: It is a storage unit made from free space on one or more disks. It can be formatted with a file system and assigned a drive letter. Volumes on dynamic disks can have any of the following layouts:- Simple Volume Spanned Volume Mirrored Volume Striped Volume RAID-5 Volume Simple Volume : Simple Volume Simple volume uses free space from a single disk. It can be a single region on a disk or consist of multiple, concatenated regions. A simple volume can be extended within the same disk or onto additional disks. If a simple volume is extended across multiple disks, it becomes a spanned volume. Spanned Volume : Spanned Volume Spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume cannot be mirrored and is not fault-tolerant. Striped Volume : Striped Volume Striped volume is a volume whose data is interleaved across two or more physical disks. The data on this type of volume is allocated alternately and evenly to each of the physical disks. We can extend a striped volume up to 32 disks and minimum 2 disks. A striped volume cannot be mirrored or extended and is not fault-tolerant. Striping is also known as RAID-0. Mirrored Volume : Mirrored Volume Mirrored volume is a fault-tolerant volume whose data is duplicated on two physical disks. All of the data on one volume is copied to another disk to provide data redundancy. If one of the disks fails, the data can still be accessed from the remaining disk. A mirrored volume cannot be extended. Mirroring is also known as RAID-1 RAID-5 Volume : RAID-5 Volume RAID-5 volume is a fault-tolerant volume whose data is striped across an array of three or more disks. When we save data on RAID 5 volume the complete data is divided in 3 partitions in form of 64 blocks and with second block chunks. Parity (a calculated value that can be used to reconstruct data after a failure) is also striped across the disk array. If a physical disk fails, the portion of the RAID-5 volume that was on that failed disk can be re-created from the remaining data and the parity. A RAID-5 volume cannot be mirrored or extended. Quick Notes:- : Quick Notes:- RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID allows you to store the same data redundantly (in multiple paces) in a balanced ay to improve overall performance. System volume contains the hardware-specific files that are needed to load Windows (for example, Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com). The system volume can be, but does not have to be, the same as the boot volume. Boot volume contains the Windows operating system files that are located in the %Systemroot% and %Systemroot%'System32 folders. The boot volume can be, but does not have to be, the same as the system volume