Many Windows users are still familiar with the old brand
Power Quest Partition Magic, which provides users with powerful
partition management performance. It has been the first choice of partition management tool for Windows users during the whole Windows XP period. However, with the development of technology, in the recent years, when we try to use this old brand
Partition Magic to manage
dynamic disk in Windows operating system, we will find it incompatible with dynamic disk. It is because this Partition Magic has stopped updating for a very long time. It is not able to manage dynamic disk, and is incompatible with Windows server operating system as well. Therefore, users are seeking for better solution instead of Power Quest Partition Magic.
In fact, in the present software market, there are more and more types of
new partition magic. Among them all, there is one outstanding one, which can be downloaded from the website
http://www.partition-magic.com/. This new partition magic not only has all the great features of Partition Magic, but also has been added with many new features like perfect
dynamic disk management functions.
Dynamic disk
Dynamic disk is firstly introduced in the age of Windows 2000. Dynamic disk management is added to the Windows system built-in disk management tool. In the way of dynamic disk managing disk space, we can create simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume, and RAID-5 volume. The differences between dynamic disk and basic disk are showed in many aspects, such as maximum partition or volume amount they support, and dynamic disk allows users to extend volume or convert volume freely while basic disk doesn't. With the free space from different disks, we can create a large RAID-5 volume that has fault tolerance function.
If you want to
convert basic disk to dynamic disk, you can use the Windows built-in
disk management tool to realize this operation as the following picture shows:
However, you should know that to use built-in disk management tool to convert basic disk to dynamic disk will damage data security. Therefore, before converting, we should backup data in advance. And for dynamic disk management, we should employ the new partition magic from the above website.
The following picture shows us the main interface of this new partition magic:
In the "
Operations" area at the left, we can see clearly the all-sided dynamic disk management functions including
create volume,
delete volume,
format volume,
resize volume,
move volume,
convert file system, and
wipe volume. Therefore, we can see how powerful this new partition magic is.
In fact, dynamic disk is now widely applied to server computers. In the future, I believe it will be also applied to common PC computers for better performance. And for better dynamic disk management, this new partition magic is the best choice for you.