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The Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is a hard disk partitioning system for Windows, developed by Microsoft and Veritas Software. It was introduced with the Windows 2000 operating system, and is also supported in Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista.

Overview

Basic storage involves dividing a disk into primary and extended partitions. This is the way that all versions of Windows that were reliant on DOS handled storage, and disks formatted in this manner are known as basic disks. Dynamic storage involves the use of a single partition that covers the entire disk, and the disk itself is divided into volumes or combined with other disks to form volumes that are greater in size than one disk itself. Basic disks can be upgraded to dynamic disks, however when this is done the disk cannot be downgraded to a basic disk again. Volumes can use any supported file system.

Dynamic disks provide the capability for RAIDs. The main disadvantage of dynamic disks in Windows is that disks converted to dynamic disks can only be recognized under later versions of Windows (Windows 2000 or later), or Linux (kernel 2.4.8 or later). In addition, converting to dynamic disks can cause major problems.

Dynamic disks under Windows are provided with the use of internal databases stored on disk(s) and master boot record. The volumes are referred to as dynamic volumes. It is possible to have 2000 dynamic volumes per dynamic disk, but the maximum recommended by Microsoft is 32.

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