It provides a simple storage solution that can accommodate a useful array of changing storage requirement scenarios. Dynamic Disk : Dynamic disk contains multiple dynamic volumes about , similar to primary partition in basic disk. In some versions of windows, multiple independent dynamic partitions can be merged into a dynamic volume or can be split data to multiple partitions to improve performance or clone data called image among different partitions.
All volumes on dynamic disks are known as dynamic volumes. Dynamic disks have some features that basic disk does not have, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks spanned and striped volumes and the ability to create fault-tolerant volumes mirrored and RAID-5 volumes. One computer hard disk may be converted from basic disk to dynamic disk by users intentionally or unintentionally.
As mention above, the data management of dynamic disk is totally different from basic disk. Basic disk manage partition with partition table, which is supported by many manufactures.
The partition table is compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac and Android, even some music players also support, while dynamic disk is narrowly used and less compatible. Compared with basic disk, dynamic disk is easier to emerge problem. When users change the chassis or accessory of chassis, the dynamic disk will be invalid. Or insert removable dynamic disk into another computer, and it cannot read the data in removable disk and shown as invalid. And install dual systems, one can display dynamic disk correctly while another cannot, etc.
All these situations show the computer cannot read dynamic disk. All in all, you may encounter disk dynamic error in following situations:. After completing the data recovery, you can take measures to fix the disk invalid problem. Try the following solutions. Firstly, you may choose to reactivate dynamic disk via command prompt. Just type cmd in the search box, right-click on the tool to run it as administrators.
Then, type the following command lines. Sometimes, you can easily reactivate dynamic disk via command prompt. However, in most cases, dynamic disk invalid reactivate way is not useful. Or, you may consider doing that via Disk Management. Whereas when you right-click Reactivate Disk feature, you will receive such an error " This operation is not allowed on the invalid disk pack ". If you fail to repair invalid dynamic disk without data loss free by this way, try the next solution - to convert to basic disk from dynamic disk.
In order to make sure that data on the target dynamic disk is safe, the method of converting to basic disk is very important. Is there any simple way? Of course, you can try a professional partition and disk management software to do this work without data loss.
Here, MiniTool Partition Wizard is also a good recommendation to manage your partition and disk well, including basic disk and dynamic disk. For converting to basic disk without losing data from dynamic disk, this dynamic disk partition manager is quite useful. How to repair invalid dynamic disk without data loss using this dynamic disk converter?
Step-by-step guidance is as follows:. Please select the target dynamic disk which shows bad disk here. Step 2: Then you can preview the dynamic disk will become a basic disk.
Then click Apply to make this operation effective to repair invalid dynamic disk without data loss. Then, MiniTool Partition Wizard will inform you to close all other applications before you apply the pending changes.
Click Yes to begin the conversion process. When it comes to the conversion between the dynamic disk and basic disk, some of you probably say: "Can I use Disk Management to do this work?
Whether data is safe or not? Any suggestion? Step 2: Then right-click the dynamic disk which is invalid, two options including Reactivate disk and Convert to Basic Disk can be used. Please select the second feature to do the conversion. We believe you may agree with me: Converting dynamic disk to basic disk causes data loss with Disk Management. If you have recovered data, you can try this tool.
Or if there are no important files on your dynamic disk, you can run Windows Disk Management to do the conversion. On the contrary, it is not recommended to use this free tool which will lead to data loss if many files are saved on the invalid dynamic hard disk before recovering data. What do I get with a subscription? With your subscription - you'll gain access to our exclusive IT community of thousands of IT pros.
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