New SATA drive

[Shooks]

I just installed a new 250GB SATA drive in my computer, and when I look at it in the management console it is a Dynamic Disk. My question is, should I delete the volume and make it a Basic disk, or should I leave it as a Dynamic...is there any difference that would affect me (i am only using it for storage)

 

[Burner27]

basic

 

[Shooks]

any specific reason?
thanks for answering though!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I've had problems ghosting partitions that were on a dynamic disk. Also, there really isn't any reason to go dynamic unless you are planning on doing software RAID, which I don't recommend in the first place.

 

[Burner27]

You cannot access Dynamic disks with any other OS other than Win2K/WinXP. Restoring data to a Dynamic disk is not possible with third party backup software unless they support it and even then, your success rate is low.

Less headaches with Basic disks.

 

[Shooks]

thanks guys, appreciate the help, gonna convert to basic

 

[Slowlearner]

There is an easy fix - you do not have to delete - search AT forums archive for last 90 days