dynamic disks

A physical disk that is managed by the Windows 2000  tool. Dynamic disks can contain only  created with Disk Management and cannot contain partitions or logical physical disks.

Note: Dynamic disks and virtual disks are not supported on laptop computers.

The following tasks may be performed on dynamic disks:

• Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and  virtual disks
• Extend a simple or spanned virtual disk
• Remove a mirror from a mirrored virtual disk or split the virtual disk into two virtual disks
• Repair mirrored or RAID 5 virtual disks
• Reactivate a missing or offline disk

For more information on dynamic disks, refer to your Windows 2000 user documentation.