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HOW TO: Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 309044 - This article describes how to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, and how to change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk by using the Disk Management snap-in in Windows XP
Professional.
HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 307844 - This article describes how to assign, change, or remove drive letters on a drive, partition, or volume by using the Disk Management snap-in in Windows
XP.
How to Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 223188 - This article describes how to change the system or boot drive letter in Windows. For the most part, this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed. The only time that you may want to do
this is when the drive letters get changed without any user
intervention. This may happen when you break a mirror volume or
there is a drive configuration change. This should be a rare
occurrence and you should change the drive letters back to match
the initial installation.
HOW TO: Change a GUID Partition Table Disk into a Master Boot Record Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 282793 - This step-by-step article describes how to change a GUID partition table (GPT) disk into a master boot record (MBR) disk (64-bit
only).
HOW TO: Convert an IEEE 1394 Disk Drive to a Dynamic Disk Drive in
Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 299598 - This step-by-step
article describes how to convert an Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 1394 (FireWire) disk drive to a
dynamic disk drive. NOTE: Do not convert IEEE 1394 disk drives to
dynamic disk drives if they are going to other hosts. The registry
manipulation that this article describes must only be used for
drives that remain with a single host.
HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition with Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 305595 - This step-by-step article describes how to create a boot disk for Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an Intel-processor-based
computer.
HOW TO: Create a Mirrored Volume in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 307880
- This step-by-step article describes how to create a mirrored
volume on a remote Windows 2000 Server-based computer by using the
Disk Management snap-in in Microsoft Windows XP.
You can use the Disk Management
snap-in to create a mirrored volume from unallocated disk space on
a dynamic disk, or mirror an existing simple volume on a dynamic
disk
How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows XP and Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 183322 - This article describes how to enable disk quotas in
Windows.
How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI
Disk Drives in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 303013 - This article describes
the Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) 48-bit Logical Block
Addressing (LBA) support for ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) disk
drives that can enable the capacity of your hard disk to exceed
the current 137 gigabyte (GB) limit.
How to Locate and Correct Disk Space Problems on NTFS Volumes in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 315688 - The NTFS file system supports many volume- and file-level features that may cause free disk space to be either misreported or reported as lost. You may notice this behavior if an NTFS volume suddenly becomes very full, and you cannot finish
HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 313348 - This step-by-step
article describes how to partition and format a hard disk with
Windows XP. Before you can install an operating system, you must
first create a primary partition on the first physical hard disk
(Disk 0) on your computer, and then format a file system on that
partition. This partition is named the System partition.
Alternatively, you can create a separate partition for the
operating system on any physical hard disk. This is named the Boot
partition. The System partition on Disk 0 can also be used as a
Boot partition.
How to Provide Event Logging for the Disk Defragmenter Utility with Windows Script Host
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 294743 - This article discusses how to provide event logging for the Disk Defragmenter
(Defrag.exe) utility with Windows Script Host. This command-line Disk Defragmenter utility that is included with Microsoft Windows XP enables administrators and
power users to schedule, and, if needed, to script their
operations.
How to Remove the Linux LILO Boot Manager
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 315224 - This article describes how to remove the Linux LILO boot manager from the master boot record
(MBR).
HOW TO: Use Windows XP to Create a RAID-5 Volume on a Remote Windows 2000 Computer
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 309043 - This article describes how to create a RAID-5 volume on a remote Windows 2000 Server-based computer by using the Disk Management snap-in in Microsoft Windows
XP.
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