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Question about dynamic drive

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openation

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I'm running windows xp professional and in the disk management utility you can make your disk dynamic. What is this? is it for better performance or what can you do with that?
 
Dynamic Disks allow you to adjust the partition sizes without deleting all of the data (sometimes). It always allows you to increase the size of a partition by adding free space to a partition.

It doesnt effect performance at all.

I wouldnt recomend making a boot partition dynamic. Its great for second and third hard disks!
 
The bad part of dynamic disks is if you screw up a partition royally or a disk in a spanned dynamic partition goes down your data is either irreparably gone or very hard to recover depending on the situation. I won't use dynamic disks after I once schmoed a partition over two drives and had a hell of a time restoring the drive-many dll's and boot.ini, ntdetect, etc. were all corrupted.

If you do use it, I'd agree to keep the OS on another physical disk.
 
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