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Earn Credits. Now, also under 'Configuration', select 'Services'. Scroll down and find the 'Virtual Disk' service. Set it 'Automatic' and start it. Extended partition A nonbootable portion of the hard disk that can be subdivided into logical drives. There can be only a single extended partition per hard disk, but it can be divided into multiple logical drives.

Extended volume Similar to, and sometimes synonymous with, a spanned volume. This is any dynamic volume that has been extended to make it larger than its original size. When an extended volume uses portions of more than one physical disk, it is more properly referred to as a spanned volume. Logical drive A section or partition of a hard disk that acts as a single unit.

An extended partition can be divided, for example, into multiple logical drives. Basic disk A traditional disk drive that is divided into one or more partitions, with a logical drive in the primary partition, if present, and one or more logical drives in any extended partitions. Basic disks do not support the more advanced functions of Disk Management, but they can be converted to dynamic disks in many cases.

Volume A unit of disk space composed of one or more sections of one or more disks. Prior versions of Windows Server used volume only when referring to dynamic disks, but Windows Server uses it to mean partitions as well. Simple volume Used interchangeably with partition in Windows Server , earlier versions of Windows used simple volume only when referring to a dynamic disk. A portion of a single disk, a simple volume can be assigned either a single drive letter or no drive letter and can be attached mounted on zero or more mount points.

Spanned volume A collection of portions of hard disks combined into a single addressable unit. A spanned volume is formatted like a single drive and can have a drive letter assigned to it, but it will span multiple physical drives. Note: the size of unallocated space must be larger than the partition you will move. Step 2. Step 4. Back to the main interface, you can see the unallocated space is right behind the aim partition now. Step 6. It helps you to convert a dynamic to GPT partition style without deleting any partitions.

Here, we take converting dynamic disk to basic and resizing volumes as examples to show you how it works. And you can download the demo version to follow the steps. Although dynamic disk provides various good features that have attracted lots of people change their basic disk to dynamic in Disk Managerment.

However, like we said above, a dynamic disk also has its diasadvantages, for instance, it does not support multi-boot system environment. And you may want to convert your dynamic disk back to basic disk. But the Disk Management can't perform this operation. Step 1. Step 3. There are 2 converting methods you can choose, Convert a dynamic disk back to basic disk and Convert any dynamic volume to basic partition.

Here we choose the first option which is faster. This is how to convert dynamic disk to basic in Windows R2. In order to take effect the conversion operations, your PC will be restarted.