70-210 - Dynamic Discs

Author

Dynamic Discs

WarrenStreet

2003-08-06, 9:20 am

Hi all,
M$ in it's training books insists

that dynamic disks are not support on portable computers, and marks my answers wrong!!!!

I do have a "portable computer" (laptop) with dynamic disks.... so?

Can anybody enlighten

me please?

Thanks in advance

aznluvsmc

2003-08-06, 9:58 am

Dynamic Disks are supported on laptops, they are not supported on removable storage.

mrfixit

2003-08-06, 10:31 am

From M$:

quote:
Most removable media devices, such as Zip and Jaz drives and optical discs (for example, DVD-RAM), already have a primary partition equal to the total size of the media. If the removable media has a primary partition, you cannot mark the partition as active or delete it. You cannot create extended partitions, logical drives, or dynamic volumes on removable media devices.

quote:
Dynamic disks are not supported on portable computers, removable disks, detachable disks that use Universal Serial Bus (USB) or IEEE 1394 (also called FireWire) interfaces, or on disks connected to shared SCSI buses. If you are using a portable computer and right-click a disk in the graphical or list view in Disk Management, you will not see the option to convert the disk to dynamic.

Confirmation here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...ic_overview.asp

WarrenStreet

2003-08-06, 10:50 am

So... a "portable computer" is something different from a laptop?

mrfixit

2003-08-06, 1:43 pm

quote:
Originally posted by WarrenStreet
So... a "portable computer" is something different from a laptop?

"Portable Computer" and "Laptop" are synonymous. Check these links:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;254105

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;232463

Hope this straightens things out for you.

stevenkok

2003-08-06, 4:47 pm

i believe portable computers does not support dynamic disks for removable storage

WarrenStreet

2003-08-07, 7:48 am

Now i got the point.

Since portable pc usually have 1 disk, the only way to take FULL advantage of dynamic memory would be to add a removable device in striping but the dinamic option is not available for removable device so this is the reason why dinamic disks are not available for portable.
BUT, I can certainly upgrade a portable pc disk to dinamic memory...

I' was confusing the two things...

Thanks a lot...

WarrenStreet..the loosy dumbass

enforcer

2003-08-07, 10:02 am

Also bear in mind the term 'not supported' does not necesarily mean it can't be done, it just means that Microsoft do not support you doing it.

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