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basic disk
Last modified: Friday, July 06, 2007 

A physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives. Basic disks can be accessed by all versions of Windows, MS-DOS, and Windows NT.  Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple logical drives. Upgrading a basic disk to dynamic disk will render the entire disk unreadable to operating systems other than Windows 2000.

Contrast with dynamic disk.

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Dynamic vs. Basic Storage in Windows 2000
In Windows 2000, a new storage type has been defined and exposed in the new Logical Disk Management snap-in; previous versions of Windows NT used only basic storage.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
This step-by-step article describes how to use the Windows XP Disk Management snap-in to configure a basic disk and prepare it for use. This article also describes how to create and delete partitions, and how to format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems.

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Hard Disk Drives

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dynamic disk

format

hard disk drive

hard drive

hard drive enclosure

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partition

storage

volume

volume label

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