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Lesson 1 Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes
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Windows returns you to the Disk Management tool and begins the conversion.
Note If the disk contains the system or boot volume or any part of the paging file, you will
have to restart the computer to complete the conversion process.
You can verify that Windows completed the conversion by viewing the disk type in
Disk Management, as shown in Figure 10-10.
Figure 10-10 The dynamic disk type is displayed in Disk Management.
If you right-click the disk and do not see the Convert To Dynamic Disk option, one of
the following conditions might exist:
■ The disk has already been converted to dynamic.
■ You have right-clicked a volume instead of the disk.
■ The disk is in a portable computer. Portable computers do not support dynamic
disks.
■ There is not 1 MB of available space at the end of the disk to hold the dynamic
disk database.
■ The disk is a removable disk, such as a Zip disk or a detachable USB disk device.
Dynamic disks are not supported on removable disks.
■ The sector size on the disk is larger than 512 bytes. Windows XP Professional supports
dynamic disks only on disks with a sector size of 512 bytes. The vast majority
of hard disks use this sector size.
How to Revert from a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk
To make a dynamic disk locally accessible by an operating system other than Windows
XP Professional (for example, to allow a computer running Windows 98 to access the