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and you want to make half of it E: and the other half F:, for example, you

create two volumes on a dynamic disk. That’s it.

Spanned volumes use unallocated space on multiple drives to create a

single volume. Spanned volumes are a bit risky: if any of the spanned drives

fails, the entire volume is lost.

Striped volumes are RAID 0 volumes. You may take any two unallocated

spaces on two separate hard drives and stripe them. But again, if either drive

fails, you lose all of your data.

Mirrored volumes are RAID 1 volumes. You may take any two

unallocated spaces on two separate hard drives and mirror them. If one of the

two mirrored drives fails, the other keeps running.

RAID 5 volumes, as the name implies, are for RAID 5 arrays. A RAID 5

volume requires three or more dynamic disks with equal-sized unallocated

spaces.

NOTE Windows 8 and later can use a software RAID system called

Storage Spaces that’s distinct from dynamic disks. See the appropriately

named section of this chapter for the scoop.

GUID Partition Table

MBR partitioning came out a long time ago, in an age where 32-MB hard

drives were thought to be larger than you would ever need. While it’s lasted a

long time as the partitioning standard for bootable drives, there’s a newer kid

in town with the power to outshine the aging partitioning scheme and assume

all the functions of the older partition style.

The GUID partition table (GPT) partitioning scheme shares a lot with the

MBR partitioning scheme, but most of the MBR scheme’s limitations have

been fixed. Here are the big improvements:

• While MBR drives are limited to four partitions, a GPT drive can have

an almost unlimited number of primary partitions. Microsoft has

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