1:56 This is incorrect. The max amount of partitions is dependent on the partition table type. The old MBR is only 4 max yes, but GPT can do up to 128 partitions on a basic disk in Windows. The "basic disks can only have up to 4 partitions" is a myth that used to be true.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've been looking for an explanation all day that I would understand on this topic. You will be getting a subscribe from me as I take flight in my Tech journey.
@@user-li8rm3qj4b me too, I converted my gaming hard drive where I have all my games stored into a dynamic disk and now I have two partitions that have merged into one and I just want one complete partition. Also, Linux can't read dynamic disks. 😢
Really great explanation. I do have a question, I just got a raid 1 installed, but thinking a raid 5 would be better. What kind of RAID controller card would you recommend? I found several LSI cards on Amazon and they are having their October sale soon. I have a single drive 1 TB just for the operating system and 2 drives mirrored for a raid 1 and one spare 4 TB drive. Would you recommend putting the operating system all together or keeping separate. Its taken me over 6 months to put this together. I have a asus P8B75-M mother board with a 3770K cpu. People said it would never work on windows 10, but it does. Windows 11 is a whole different story. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Dynamic disks have been deprecated from Windows and Microsoft does not recommend using them anymore. Microsoft recommends using basic disks or using the newer Storage Spaces technology when you want to pool disks together into larger volumes. The Dynamic Disks feature is no longer being developed and will be fully replaced by Storage Spaces in a future release. Also, every time you want to use a dynamic disk on a new computer, or even if you just remove and put it back in, you will have to manually import the dynamic disk. Changing a dynamic disk back to a basic disk requires the dynamic disk data to be deleted. And one last thing, MBR = 4 primary partitions while GPT = 128 partitions. MBR should not be used for a new disk.
Here Master at messing things up come!! 🙂 I did nothing but some how i managed to convert my ssd into dynamic... I love myself seriously f*cking love myself
...and MS still (Windows 10, 22H2) sets MBR as a default selection in the dialog of a partition table creation for a new disk drive! So it must be ok when he's highlighting MBR "limitations", but there's no mention that this dynamic shit is going to be attached to a single OS.
I converted my 2 TB storage disk to dynamic as it felt easier to recover space from less used partitions and add it up to my games storage partition. I noticed the disk began with an 100+ Gb as a reserved partition. It still has less than 300 Mb used, but I managed to reduce it to 4 GB. Now, if this partition houses the database that translates dynamic addressing to the physical disk underneath, then probably this database will become larger and larger, threatening at some point to hit take all the space available ?
He said, "Basic disk support's multi boot environment in a computer" ! By that.... Does he mean dual booting partisan frm the same hdd/ssd?? or frm 2 or more separated drives as different boot d's in a computer. Because.... I'w looking to set up a dual booting of Windows10 & Ubuntu in a m/c containing 3 drives.... So should i keep the 2 boot drives fr Win & Ubu(secondary) as Basic drives and the storage as Dynamic drive or do I've to config all 3 of them as Basic drives? Coz i was thinking, i would convert all the drives to Dynamic drives and use 2 fr dual booting operating systems and 1 fr storage and marge the extra space of the 2nd optional boot drive with the storage drive. Can't i?
I have a question, my gaming hard drive is a gpt dynamic disk with a small 500mb partition and the rest of the 4tb drive is on another partition. Am I able to delete the small 500mb partition without losing data? It's hard to tell since dynamic disks merge multiple volumes on one disk, I just want to have one big partition and maybe later on convert the disk back to a basic disk since Linux can't read dynamic disks.
hello, i mainly do gaiming im my pc. i accidentally comverted my main drive with windows on it, into a dynamic drive. will i notice any issues? or will i have to get it fixed by a professional. thanks
I too converted my laptop's SSD and HDD to dynamic from basic by mistake. From the information i gathered after searching the web, to convert back to basic from dynamic, you have to formate everything and create new volumes. If you are not into dualbooting your PC and just want to play games, I guess you can leave as it is.
@@ILNSuryaChandra yeah, i had an issue where i could no linger shut down my pc or restart it afterwards. so i took it to a repair guy that my family has always gone to. it was $125 and he fixed it all good as new
I have converted my basic disk to dynamic disk got a prompt "After you convert these disks to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on these disks (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to convert?", and my boot is on my c drive, if i restart my computer, will it not load the OS?
Outstanding presentation, wow, such clarity is a real rarity....ha didn't mean to rhyme. As this was the 3rd try to get simply a general quick and dirty understanding and clear video explanation of the 2, that is, of Basic vs Dynamic setups and I do thank you, subbed, Liked and hope for another chance at a sense of clarity. Seriously considering Linux, after the uselessness of Windows 11 roll out, that for some reason they add clicks to send users to Settings where forced to a page formerly directly to a simple Control Panel page,they've added steps to, and while it's an eventuality to end up where you wanted to be, the glitch is if you're working on someone else's PC, and they see you appearing to know way less than you do, how embarassing, when you're supposed to be the know it all compared to them at least. It looks a lot less professional when I appear stumped as to questioning,mumbling to myself, wait what did I miss, heh heh Peace thanks again
Actually it's a clusterf**k of misinformation. He's confusing different partition schemes with Microsoft terminology for whether a disk is configured as a single disk, or whether multiple disks are pooled together for more advanced features.
Damn, I watched another of this guys vids and it was informative about a topic that was new to me. But I'm watching this to find out mostly if this windows "Dynamic Disk" thing does what I think it does (for a family member's setup) and I'm sure he's conflating MBR/GPT style partition tables with Basic/Dynamic disks. Everything he's saying about "Basic Disks" actually refers to the older MBR style partition tables on a hard drive which is present regardless of whether Windows and it's "Basic vs Dynamic" way of naming things is used or not. I'd bet money I can configure a GPT style partitioning scheme with way more than four partitions, and still configure it as a "Basic Disk" in Windows. Pretty poor & confusing from a storage vendor.
You talk very quickly. I suggest a medical disclaimer that listening to this video can cause high blood pressure. It isn't that the content is complex - there's just a lot of world salad there.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've been looking for an explanation all day that I would understand on this topic
1:56 This is incorrect. The max amount of partitions is dependent on the partition table type. The old MBR is only 4 max yes, but GPT can do up to 128 partitions on a basic disk in Windows.
The "basic disks can only have up to 4 partitions" is a myth that used to be true.
Thank you - priceless info for me just now.
Got it 🖖💯
TLDR.: Installing OS -> simple disc
data storage/gaming/ work files/etc. -> Dynamic disc.
Simple and effective way to explain it
Glad you think so!
Thank you. It was really helpful
thank you
one of the best videos on this topic
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've been looking for an explanation all day that I would understand on this topic. You will be getting a subscribe from me as I take flight in my Tech journey.
Perfection! Thank you.
Which disk format should be used between basic and dynamic disk for UEFI windows 11 installation
Is better to use Dynamic disk or Basic disk for Windows 10 (system drive) on a NVME harddrive? And how can you convert to Dynamic or Basic disk? thx
Basic is better i guess!!
My mother f*cking hand manage to convert into dynamic
and now i am regreting it..
@@user-li8rm3qj4b me too, I converted my gaming hard drive where I have all my games stored into a dynamic disk and now I have two partitions that have merged into one and I just want one complete partition. Also, Linux can't read dynamic disks. 😢
Really great explanation. I do have a question, I just got a raid 1 installed, but thinking a raid 5 would be better. What kind of RAID controller card would you recommend? I found several LSI cards on Amazon and they are having their October sale soon. I have a single drive 1 TB just for the operating system and 2 drives mirrored for a raid 1 and one spare 4 TB drive. Would you recommend putting the operating system all together or keeping separate. Its taken me over 6 months to put this together. I have a asus P8B75-M mother board with a 3770K cpu. People said it would never work on windows 10, but it does. Windows 11 is a whole different story. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Dynamic disks have been deprecated from Windows and Microsoft does not recommend using them anymore. Microsoft recommends using basic disks or using the newer Storage Spaces technology when you want to pool disks together into larger volumes. The Dynamic Disks feature is no longer being developed and will be fully replaced by Storage Spaces in a future release. Also, every time you want to use a dynamic disk on a new computer, or even if you just remove and put it back in, you will have to manually import the dynamic disk. Changing a dynamic disk back to a basic disk requires the dynamic disk data to be deleted. And one last thing, MBR = 4 primary partitions while GPT = 128 partitions. MBR should not be used for a new disk.
How can i return to basics disk
@@hmzsniper To safely not lose data you will need to use software like EaseUS Partition Master to switch Dynamic disk to Basic disk.
Here Master at messing things up come!! 🙂
I did nothing but some how i managed to convert my ssd into dynamic...
I love myself
seriously f*cking love myself
...and MS still (Windows 10, 22H2) sets MBR as a default selection in the dialog of a partition table creation for a new disk drive!
So it must be ok when he's highlighting MBR "limitations", but there's no mention that this dynamic shit is going to be attached to a single OS.
Before I watch your vedio , I prefer to give a thumb up for your nice smile face.:)
I converted my 2 TB storage disk to dynamic as it felt easier to recover space from less used partitions and add it up to my games storage partition. I noticed the disk began with an 100+ Gb as a reserved partition. It still has less than 300 Mb used, but I managed to reduce it to 4 GB. Now, if this partition houses the database that translates dynamic addressing to the physical disk underneath, then probably this database will become larger and larger, threatening at some point to hit take all the space available ?
can I change between dynamic and basic freely ? or there will things to consider?
How can i convert Dynamic disk to basic without losing data
He said, "Basic disk support's multi boot environment in a computer" ! By that.... Does he mean dual booting partisan frm the same hdd/ssd?? or frm 2 or more separated drives as different boot d's in a computer.
Because.... I'w looking to set up a dual booting of Windows10 & Ubuntu in a m/c containing 3 drives.... So should i keep the 2 boot drives fr Win & Ubu(secondary) as Basic drives and the storage as Dynamic drive or do I've to config all 3 of them as Basic drives?
Coz i was thinking, i would convert all the drives to Dynamic drives and use 2 fr dual booting operating systems and 1 fr storage and marge the extra space of the 2nd optional boot drive with the storage drive. Can't i?
I have a question, my gaming hard drive is a gpt dynamic disk with a small 500mb partition and the rest of the 4tb drive is on another partition. Am I able to delete the small 500mb partition without losing data? It's hard to tell since dynamic disks merge multiple volumes on one disk, I just want to have one big partition and maybe later on convert the disk back to a basic disk since Linux can't read dynamic disks.
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome!
hello, i mainly do gaiming im my pc. i accidentally comverted my main drive with windows on it, into a dynamic drive. will i notice any issues? or will i have to get it fixed by a professional. thanks
gaming
I too converted my laptop's SSD and HDD to dynamic from basic by mistake. From the information i gathered after searching the web, to convert back to basic from dynamic, you have to formate everything and create new volumes. If you are not into dualbooting your PC and just want to play games, I guess you can leave as it is.
@@ILNSuryaChandra yeah, i had an issue where i could no linger shut down my pc or restart it afterwards. so i took it to a repair guy that my family has always gone to. it was $125 and he fixed it all good as new
I have converted my basic disk to dynamic disk got a prompt "After you convert these disks to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on these disks (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to convert?", and my boot is on my c drive, if i restart my computer, will it not load the OS?
how did it go , i has the same problem and know I'm scared to restart the computer
Can i use a dynamic disk (laptop HDD) as an external HDD with suitable SATA TO USB?
Outstanding presentation, wow, such clarity is a real rarity....ha didn't mean to rhyme. As this was the 3rd try to get simply a general quick and dirty understanding and clear video explanation of the 2, that is, of Basic vs Dynamic setups and I do thank you, subbed, Liked and hope for another chance at a sense of clarity. Seriously considering Linux, after the uselessness of Windows 11 roll out, that for some reason they add clicks to send users to Settings where forced to a page formerly directly to a simple Control Panel page,they've added steps to, and while it's an eventuality to end up where you wanted to be, the glitch is if you're working on someone else's PC, and they see you appearing to know way less than you do, how embarassing, when you're supposed to be the know it all compared to them at least. It looks a lot less professional when I appear stumped as to questioning,mumbling to myself, wait what did I miss, heh heh
Peace thanks again
Actually it's a clusterf**k of misinformation. He's confusing different partition schemes with Microsoft terminology for whether a disk is configured as a single disk, or whether multiple disks are pooled together for more advanced features.
Dynamic disks don't support TRIM.
If you have a software RAID on Windows with SSD's, you can't TRIM them.
They will slow down as time fly by.
TRIM doesn't allow you to recover data from your disk. So not sure I prefer speed over data recovery.
@@christiangrey6258 There are Storage Spaces on Windows. Supports both TRIM and data recovery.
so. its all just RAID 0, 1, 10, 5?
Damn, I watched another of this guys vids and it was informative about a topic that was new to me. But I'm watching this to find out mostly if this windows "Dynamic Disk" thing does what I think it does (for a family member's setup) and I'm sure he's conflating MBR/GPT style partition tables with Basic/Dynamic disks. Everything he's saying about "Basic Disks" actually refers to the older MBR style partition tables on a hard drive which is present regardless of whether Windows and it's "Basic vs Dynamic" way of naming things is used or not. I'd bet money I can configure a GPT style partitioning scheme with way more than four partitions, and still configure it as a "Basic Disk" in Windows. Pretty poor & confusing from a storage vendor.
You talk very quickly. I suggest a medical disclaimer that listening to this video can cause high blood pressure.
It isn't that the content is complex - there's just a lot of world salad there.