A disk marked as dynamic can be used with other dynamic disks in a spanned or volume?

What volume type is essentially a method for combining the space from multiple dynamic disks into a single large volume?

Spanned Volume

Can span more than one hard drive?

Yes. In Windows 7 you can add up to 32 drives in a single spanned volume. The disks must be dynamic disks and can not be basic disks. However if one of the drives in the spanned volume fails then the entire volume will fail and the data will be lost.

A volume appears as a appears as a simple volume but can use space from two or more physical disks?

Spanned

What are Difference between a spanned volume and a striped volume?

A spanned volume combines multiple disks into a single logical volume, allowing data to span across them sequentially. A striped volume also uses multiple disks, but data is written across the disks in stripes (block-level striping), improving performance by spreading data access across multiple disks. However, in a striped volume, a loss of a single disk can result in data loss for the entire volume.

Which operating system does not support dynamic disks?

Windows Home editions, such as Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home, do not support dynamic disks. Dynamic disks are primarily supported in the Professional, Enterprise, and Server editions of Windows. This limitation means that users of Home editions cannot take advantage of features like volume spanning, mirroring, and striping offered by dynamic disks.

What are basic and dynamic disks?

Basic disks use normal partition tables supported by MS-DOS and all Windows versions. A basic disk contains basic volumes, such as primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. If you have any volume sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, or stripe sets with parity, you must back them up and delete or convert them to dynamic disks before you install Windows XP Professional. A basic or dynamic disk can contain any combination of FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS partitions or volumes. The disadvantage of a basic disk is that you are limited to creating only four primary partitions per disk or three primary partitions and one extended partition with logical drives. Windows NT based systems can support striping and software RAID sets for basic disks but Windows 2000/XP/2003 do not.Dynamic disks are supported in Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Dynamic disks do not use partitions or logical drives. Dynamic disks were first introduced with Windows 2000. With dynamic disks you can create volumes that span multiple disks such as spanned and striped volumes, and you can also create fault tolerant volumes such as mirrored volumes and RAID 5 volumes. Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management because they use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk and about other dynamic disks in the computer. Windows Server 2003 can repair a corrupted database on one dynamic disk by using the database on another dynamic disk. With dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without restarting Windows.Dynamic disks are not supported on laptop computers or on computers with Windows XP Home Edition installed. The number of volumes that you can create on a dynamic hard disk is only limited by the amount of free space available. Windows XP Pro, Home or 64 Bit Edition does not support mirrored or RAID5 volumes.You can use both basic and dynamic disks on the same computer system.

Explain the difference between a spanned volume and a striped volume and specify which -if any- provides increased performance and or fault tolerance?

A striped volume writes to the physical disks evenly, rather than filling allotted space one and then moving to the next. Striped volume increases the performance while, striped and spanned volumes does not provide fault tolerance.

Dynamic disks are mainly used when you want to implement where files can be stored across more than one physical hard drive?

RAID upgrade a disk if the system or boot partition is part of spanned, striped, mirrored, or RAID-5 volume. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726994.aspx

Where can one purchase a dynamic disk?

Dynamic disks are hard drives which have been converted from basic hard drive to dynamic disks. They can be converted using Windows 2000 or more recent releases. Dynamic disks offer significant advantages over traditional basis disks such as high read write speeds and no limitations of partition quantities or sizes. Once converted the partitions on the dynamic disk can be managed using software such as partition wizard

Can be used to create volumes on dynamic disks and convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk?

blocked

What types of disks does Windows XP support?

Basic and Dynamic

What can only be accessed only by operating systems that support dynamic disks after being converted from basic disk?

Dynamic disk