Dynamic Disk Storage

Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional support Dynamic storage. A dynamic drive is called a drive started for active storage space. A dynamic drive includes dynamic levels, such as RAID-5 volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, striped volumes and simple volumes.

Basic Disk Storage

MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP maintain basic storage utilizes ordinary division tables supported by. A basic drive is called a drive started for basic storage. A basic drive includes basic levels, such as logical drives, primary partitions and extended partitions.

In addition, basic volumes contain multi disc volumes which are making Windows NT 4.0 or previously, such as stripe sets with parity, mirror sets, stripe sets and volume sets. Windows XP does not sustain these multidisc basic volumes. Before you install Windows XP Professional, any stripe sets with parity, mirror sets, stripe sets and volume sets must be backed up and removed or transformed to dynamic drives.