There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

When creating a virtual machine, you are asked to select a disk type, you can either go for Fixed Disk or Dynamic Disk. What if you went for a Fixed Disk and later on realized that you need a dynamic ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

If you remove the disk of a physical system and hook it up to another running computer via USB or something, is there anyway to somehow convert the disk into a VM? Without actually booting it up or ...

A colleague told me he recently tried using the Disk Management snap-in to convert a basic disk to dynamic on a computer running Windows Server 2003 SP2. When he ...