CREATE AN ADDITIONAL SHARE NAME FOR A FOLDER

10-15Lesson 1 Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes

Windows returns you to the Disk Management tool and begins the conversion.

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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.

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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:

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The disk has already been converted to dynamic.

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You have right-clicked a volume instead of the disk.

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The disk is in a portable computer. Portable computers do not support dynamic

disks.

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There is not 1 MB of available space at the end of the disk to hold the dynamic

disk database.

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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.

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The sector size on the disk is larger than 512 bytes. Windows XP Professional sup-

ports 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

hard disk when you install the hard disk in that computer), you must convert the

dynamic disk back to a basic disk. Data is not preserved when reverting to a basic disk;

the downgrade process requires that all data be removed from the disk.

Note Whether a disk is dynamic or basic has no effect on whether clients running any oper-

ating system can connect to shared folders on that disk remotely over the network. Comput-

ers running previous versions of Windows cannot locally access a dynamic disk when you

install the disk into the computer.

To revert from a dynamic disk back to a basic disk, follow these steps: