| 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. |
