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Converting from basic to dynamic disks

Converting from basic to dynamic disks - Windows Server Tutorial

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Converting from basic to dynamic disks

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- [Instructor] Now you may have noticed when I went to create a new volume the first time when I did a simple volume, when I right click on the unallocated space, besides the simple volume, you'll see, there are a series of other options available. And the reality is, is that many of those are not available or at least not available with their full functionality as long as we are using basic disk. Okay, so here, let me, let me just kind of give you an example. If I right click and say new mirrored volume, and let's say I had disk one and disk two, and we're going to say, we'll just do, we'll do another 20,000. You'll notice it's putting 20,000 on each one, click on next, assign it a letter, next, format. Just leave it with all the defaults and finish. Well, look at what happens here. You get a little warning. It says the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. And if you do…

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