i've been going back and forth with mckennma about using dynamic disks on hardware RAID arrays. i've tried googling for the answer to the upcomming question, but, because the terms are so common, i ...

There's a saying, "What you can do and what you should do are two different things." This saying rings true for many virtual environments – in my travels supporting customers, I've seen some strange ...

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. **Disclaimer: This ONLY works if ...

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 ...

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 ...

The disks and the file system are at the center of Windows 7. It's important that your disks and file system are correctly configured. If not, you system might not function properly, or it may not ...

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 ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

Throughout the years, storage requirements and drive sizes have changed, increasing in both cases. In the early 90s, it was nearly unheard of for personal computers to use more than one physical hard ...