Basic Disks Archive

Create Stripped Volumes (RAID-0) in Microsoft Windows 8

What Are Stripped Volumes? Stripped volume is yet another type of RAID category that administrators can create when two or more hard disk drives are attached to a computer. Key point while creating stripped volumes is that all attached hard disk drives involved in the configuration must be converted to dynamic disk types before administrators

Create Spanned Volumes in Microsoft Windows 8

What Are Spanned Volumes? When a hard disk is converted to dynamic disk type it allows administrators to implement RAIDs on it. Redundant Array of Independent Disks implementation can be of several types and Spanned Volumes is among one of them. If administrators want to create Spanned Volume they must ensure that the hard disk

Convert Windows 8 Hard Disk Drives from Basic to Dynamic Type

What Are Dynamic Disks? In Microsoft Windows operating systems, dynamic disk type is the configuration that administrators make to the hard disk drives so that they can implement Redundant Array of Independent Disks or RAIDs. When Windows operating system is installed on a computer default hard disk configuration is Basic which allows administrators and users

Creating Disk Volumes (Partitions) in Windows 8

What are Disk Volumes? Disk volumes are the logical partitions which can be created in a hard disk drive so that every partition works as a separate and individual hard disk. Disk volumes can be understood easily by an example of a plot that has four walls. When there are only four walls the entire