DISK MANAGEMENT

Basic disk

Uses traditional disk management techniques Contains primary

partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives

Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions, or three

primary partitions and an extended partition with multiple

logical drives.

Dynamic disk

Does not use traditional partitioning Provides flexibility in number of volumes per disk

A physical disk that provides features that basic disks do not,Dynamic disks use a hidden database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and other dynamic disks in the computer.

Volume

An area of storage on a hard disk. A volume is formatted byusing a file system, such as file allocation table (FAT) or NTFS, and has a drive letter assigned to it.

A single hard disk can have multiple volumes, and volumes can also span multiple disks