In a very small nutshell, dynamic disks let you do things basic disks can't, like resizing volumes and making volumes span multiple disks (including software RAID 0/1/5).

Windows 2000 introduced the concepts of basic disks and dynamic disks and added them to the Windows system administrator's arsenal of tools. What's the difference between the two? Let's look at ...

If a basic disk can be hot expanded and can be a GPT partition, it seems like the only reason left for using dynamic disk is for disk subsystems that don't support RAID configurations. Since Windows ...

Windows 2003 server boots just fine from dynamic disks, but I think you should show us a screenshot of your Disk Managament MMC so we can be sure you're not accidentally spanning the volume.

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