Hmm, my main PC motherboard died so I decided to just recycle some of the hardware and make a new machine. My old machine was Windows XP SP3 and the new machine is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I had a data ...

Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at both ...

Yesterday, I had a PSS call where the MS guy I spoke to showed me this procedure. I'm posting it here so that others may not need to pay $245 to learn the same thing.<BR><BR>**Disclaimer: This ONLY ...

A Windows hard disk configuration that supports RAID architectures for high performance and fault tolerance, as well as spanning (treating multiple physical disks as one). Striping (RAID 0) splits the ...

When creating a virtual machine, you are asked to select a disk type, you can either go for Fixed Disk or Dynamic Disk. What if you went for a Fixed Disk and later on realized that you need a dynamic ...

If you’re getting the 0x80042444 – 0x4002F error code during a Windows 11 upgrade, it’s likely due to a dynamic disk configuration issue. When disks are set as ...

For free drive imaging, you can hardly beat Macrium Reflect Free Edition–as long as you don’t use dynamic (Windows software RAID) or GPT (Globally Unique IDentifier Partition Table) disks. Most users ...