Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting

You can perform the following tasks on both basic and dynamic disks:

• Check disk properties such as capacity, available free space, and current status.

• View volume and partition properties such as size, drive-letter assignment, label, type, and file system.

• Establish drive-letter assignments for disk volumes or partitions, and for CD-ROM devices.

• Establish disk sharing and security arrangements for a volume or partition.

• Upgrade a basic disk to dynamic or revert a dynamic disk to basic.

Note

You can upgrade a basic disk to dynamic disk without loss of data. However, reverting a dynamic disk back to basic disk requires that you remove all volumes prior to the conversion. If you want to keep your data, you must back it up or move it to another volume. Once the volume is reverted back to basic disk, you can create a new partition using the same drive letter or volume mount point that was used with the dynamic volume and restore the data.