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 ...

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 ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

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 ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...

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 ...