A physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical physical disks. Basic disks may also contain spanned, mirrored, striped, and .
The following tasks may be performed on basic disks:
Create and delete primary and extended partitions
Create and delete logical physical disks with an extended partition
Format a partition and mark it as active
Delete virtual disk sets, stripe sets, mirror sets, and stripe sets with consistency
Break a mirror from a mirror set
Repair a mirror set or a stripe set with consistency
For more information on basic disks, refer to your
Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 user documentation
.