Dynamic disks are not supported on the following hardware:
| • | Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) 1394 serial bus |
| • | Universal Serial Bus (USB) |
| • | Removable
disks |
| • | Disks in laptop computers or laptop docking stations |
A dynamic disk is a physical disk that contains dynamic volumes created by using Disk Management. Dynamic disks do not use traditional partition tables like primary
and extended partitions (logical drives); therefore, dynamic disks cannot be
accessed by MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me) or Windows NT operating systems.
For additional information, click the article numbers below
to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
222189 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/EN-US/) Description of Disk Groups in Windows 2000 Disk Management
232463 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232463/EN-US/) Option to Upgrade Basic Disk to Dynamic on Laptop Not Available
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