The most obvious difference between basic and dynamic disks lies in operating system support. While all versions of Windows--even DOS--support basic disks, we can't say the same for dynamic disks.

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).

But now it does not read it correctly. In Disk Management the drive shows up as a dynamic disk. I did some reading and it seems that the Windows 7 machine will only read it as a Basic disk.

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 ...

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