Basic Disk & Dynamic Disks

Basic Disk & Dynamic Disks

Basic Disk:

A disk initialized for basic storage is called a basic disk. When we install operating system by default our disk is

“Basic Disk”. A basic disk contains basic volumes, such as

1. Primary partitions,

2. Extended partitions,

3. Logical drives.

Primary partition is the first division of a hard disk drive. The primary partition is often the only one on the disk, and it occupies the entire disk volume. If there are multiple partitions, the primary partition is the one that holds the operating system and has to be made "active" in order to do so. We can make maximum 4 primary partitions on a disk.

Extended Partition: If we need more then four partition then we need to make at least one extended partition. This Extended partition is used to make more partition. Extended partition works as boundary for logical drives

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Logical Drives: We can create many logical drives inside an extended partition. We can create up to “z” logical drives, and then we can create many mounted drives on any folder or drive.

To Create Partition

Go to – My computer – Right click – Manage – Disk Management – Right Click on partition & follow the instruction…