Dynamic vs Basic

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Somehow a new HDD I installed ended up formatted as dynamic while the
others are basic. Will this cause any difficulties in speed with any of the
drives? I seem to find my system has slowed but I am not sure if this is
why.

J.
 
Jimmy said:
Somehow a new HDD I installed ended up formatted as dynamic while the
others are basic. Will this cause any difficulties in speed with any of the
drives? I seem to find my system has slowed but I am not sure if this is
why.
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I'm not sure about speed, but it does limit the drive. You won't, so
warns a Windows dialog, be able to put the drive in another PC and be
able to read it.
 
Grinder said:
I'm not sure about speed, but it does limit the drive. You won't, so
warns a Windows dialog, be able to put the drive in another PC and be
able to read it.
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Not sure about this, but maybe he will be able to reat it (after
"activating" it in disc management) in another win2k/xp machine.
 
I was screwing around with Partition Magic and somehow ended up with a
dynamic disk?? Moved my data off the disk and changed back to basic. No
problems and works fine. Primary, Extended & logical. The windows articles
suggested took me thru it.
 
Rudy said:
I was screwing around with Partition Magic and somehow ended up with a
dynamic disk?? Moved my data off the disk and changed back to basic.
No problems and works fine. Primary, Extended & logical. The windows
articles suggested took me thru it.
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Great. Thanks for the help. I don't think I have really noticed any
difficulties that I could say was due to this situation but I had planned on
doing more reading on this. Were you having any specific problems that were
fixed by changing the disk?

J.
 
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