Speaking of Windows server operating systems, Windows 2000 Server is undoubtedly a dazzling star among them. Compared with the previous server operating system, Microsoft introduces quite a few brand new functions and conceptions to Windows 2000 Server, including the dynamic disk which attracts much attention. Compared with the familiar basic disk, the dynamic disk has lots of nonnegligible advantages, but after you convert basic disk to dynamic disk on Windows 2000 Server, it is almost impossible to directly manage the volumes on dynamic disk well. So, how to better manage the dynamic volume on Windows 2000 Server? The answer is not difficult – using partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard, the server partition magic which completely supports dynamic disk management work. Before telling how to manage dynamic volume with the powerful partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard, I answer the questions below first. "What is the dynamic disk?" "Compared with basic disk, what advantages does dynamic disk have?"

The differences between Dynamic disk and basic disk
Dynamic disk is a brand new conception introduced by Windows 2000 which corresponds to basic disk. Dynamic disk breaks through the partition number limit of basic disk, and some of its dynamic volumes has features such as fault-tolerance and enhanced disk read-write performance. Here are brief introduction about the features of all kinds of dynamic volumes.

Simple volume: It is similar with the basic volume in basic disk. However, compared with basic volume in basic disk, simple volume doesn't have limit in size and quality.

Spanned volume: It is able to merge unequal spaces on two or more disks to facilitate free using disk space.

Stripped volume: It is also called "RAID-0". The feature of specifying data block to read and write data enables it to improve disk read-write ability.

Mirrored volume: It is also known as "RAID-1". When you store data in mirrored volume, it will automatically back up all data to another disk constituting mirrored volume, so mirrored volume has good fault-tolerance function.

The striped volume with parity check: It is also called "RAID-5". The functions are similar with striped volume, but the parity check feature makes it has good fault-tolerance as well as the ability to promote disk read and write performance.
After roughly knowing dynamic disk, let's see how to use the powerful partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard to easily complete the dynamic disk management work on Windows 2000 Server.

Partition magic server 2000 – MiniTool Partition Wizard
The server version of MiniTool Partition Wizard designed for server operating system not only perfectly runs under Windows 2000 Server, but also has very powerful dynamic disk management function. After installing partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard on Windows 2000 Server, run this partition magic server 2000 to see interface below.



Choose any dynamic volume in dynamic disk on the main interface, then all dynamic disk management functions of the partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard will appear on the left action panel, such as "Delete Volume", "Format Volume", "Move/Resize Volume", "Wipe Volume", "Change Volume Cluster Size" and "Check File System". So, when you want to use dynamic disk on Windows 2000 Server, the powerful partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard is the best choice for better dynamic disk management.

In fact, dynamic disk management is just a part of the powerful partition management functions in partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard. From the main interface of the partition magic, you can see that partition magic server 2000 MiniTool Partition Wizard supports disk management to basic and the whole disk. To learn detailed information about these functions, please visit http://www.server-partition-magic.com.