In a Windows system, you cannot use an array of Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) to create a striped volume because Windows requires physical disks or dynamic disks for RAID configurations like striping. VHDs are treated as files within the file system, and while they can be mounted as drives, they do not have the same capabilities as physical or dynamic disks for managing data distribution across multiple drives. Additionally, the performance benefits of striping rely on multiple physical disk access, which VHDs cannot provide in the same way.
In Windows, a striped volume requires the use of physical disks rather than virtual hard disks (VHDs) because VHDs are treated as single files within the operating system. Striped volumes distribute data across multiple physical disks to improve performance, but VHDs abstract the underlying storage, preventing the OS from accessing the required physical disk structure. Therefore, you cannot create a striped volume using an array of VHDs, as the OS cannot manage the necessary disk I/O operations across them.
· Simple volume, · Spanned volume, · Striped volume, · Mirrored volume, · RAID 5.
With the development of dynamic disk technology, there are so many Windows server users who are employing dynamic disk for better performance. To create striped volume in dynamic disk is a very common operation in dynamic disk management. However, this operation is not that easy to realize. Even though Windows server operating systems are equipped with system built-in disk management tool, this tool is very unpractical in actual operation. In this case, server users are mostly looking for a piece of professional partition magic to manage dynamic disk in server. Fortunately, in the present software market, we can find such a kind of partition magic now. With this kind of partition magic, server users can easily use partition magic to create striped volume in server. When choosing one partition magic to create striped volume, users should be careful because some kinds of partition magic have functional defect that will cause operation failure or data loss, bring unnecessary trouble to work and life. At this time, we strongly recommend the professional partition magic - MilfordSoft Partition Star for you. Use partition magic to create striped volume - MilfordSoft Partition Star To use partition magic to create striped volume in server, we first need to visit the official website of MilfordSoft Partition Star to download it and install it to server. Then, we can launch it in server: This is main interface of MilfordSoft Partition Star. Here, to create striped volume, we need to select the unallocated space in disk, and click on "Create" button: In this interface, we need to select the type of dynamic volume. Of course, we need to select "Striped" option, and click "Next" button: In this interface, we can select the disks providing space for striped volume. After that, click "Next" button: In this interface, we can set properties of this striped volume, including file system, drive letter, cluster size, and volume size, etc. After setting, click "Finish" button to return: Back to main interface, we will see there is one new striped volume shown in the volume list. Click "Apply" button to execute operation. Thus, we can successfully finish the work of using partition magic to create striped volume in server.
Boot volume
Basically the system volume is required to start up, and the boot volume contains the OS. From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470: The system volume refers to the disk volume that contains the hardware-specific files that are needed to start Windows, such as Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com. On computers that are running the Intel x86 line of CPU processors and later versions, the system volume must be a primary volume that is marked as active. This requirement can be fulfilled on any drive on the computer that the system BIOS searches when the operating system starts. The system volume can be the same volume as the boot volume. However, this configuration is not required. The boot volume refers to the disk volume that contains the Windows operating system files and the supporting files. By default, the Windows operating system files are in the WINDOWS folder, and the supporting files are in the WINDOWS\System32 folder. The boot volume can be the same volume as the system volume. However, this configuration is not required. There is only one system volume. However, there is one boot volume for each operating system in a multiboot system."
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