Does this Tweak work?

[Lightbringer-]

This is what I got from some web site and it says that this tweak is supposed ro accelerate your HD. Unfortunately I have not got only one OS (I'm on dual boot 98/XP). If anybody could test this or attest whether it really boots performance it would be great.....

"ACCELERATE YOUR HD:

convert your HD in a "dynamic HD" to make it FASTER ...

run "diskmgmt.msc".

right click on the disk to convert.Then convert it.

CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION: MULTI OS PCS DONT USE THIS AS ONLY ONE OS WILL BE USABLE."

[Lightbringer-]

Plz help me guys!! 27 views!!!

[DakotaSunRunner]

Plz help me guys!! 27 views!!!

HI,

I would be glad to help you if I knew the answer, unforturnatly I don't. Seeems illogical you can make a drive faster, however, being no expert in this particular area, I suppose anything is possible.

Dakota SunRunner

[N1K]

This is what I got from some web site and it says that this tweak is supposed ro accelerate your HD. Unfortunately I have not got only one OS (I'm on dual boot 98/XP). If anybody could test this or attest whether it really boots performance it would be great.....

"ACCELERATE YOUR HD:

convert your HD in a "dynamic HD" to make it FASTER ...

run "diskmgmt.msc".

right click on the disk to convert.Then convert it.

CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION: MULTI OS PCS DONT USE THIS AS ONLY ONE OS WILL BE USABLE."

Windows 2000 and XP supports two types of disk storage: basic storage and dynamic storage. A physical disk must be either basic or dynamic...

Basic Disks:

The industry standard is basic storage. It dictates the division of a hard disk into partitions. A partition is a portion of the disk that functions as a physically separate unit of storage. A basic disk can contain primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. New disks added to a computer are basic disks..

Only Windows 2000 and XP and 2003 Server systems support dynamic storage.

To support dynamic storage, a single partition is created that includes the entire disk.

Dynamic disks:

are divided into volumes, which can consist of a portion or portions of one or more physical disks. A dynamic disk can contain simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes (RAID-0), mirrored volumes (RAID-1), and striped with parity volumes (RAID-5). You create a dynamic disk by upgrading a basic disk.

You can use software raid on dynamic disks which isn't situation for basic disks..

Hope that helps..

[Lightbringer-]

Thanks man. Seems pretty concise. :-)

EDIT:

Made a few searches and came up with this .....

http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149

I'm going to delete my Windows 98 =)

hehe.

[N1K]

Thank you for this link, interesting site

[xiphias]

Please reference my post here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...re%20RAID&st=10

Making a disk "dynamic" in windows simply adds some meta-data to the end of the disk in a seperate little partition. It's what you DO with dynamic disks which makes the difference. Notice that I said "disks" as in the plural, if you have 1 hard drive you're outta luck. Also, you must have two fairly simular disks to do any sort of RAID. Let's say I have, oh, 2 Western Digital 10,000 RPM Raptor drives (74GB SATA) hooked up to a plain old SATA 1.1 controller (no "hardware," in reality firmware RAID.) So my motherboard sucks and doesn't have onboard RAID; no biggy, just follow the steps in the post above and you'll get RAID 1 (mirrored). RAID 0 is also possible, but NOT AS A BOOTABLE VOLUME IN WINDOWS. Mirroring gives you "double" speed disk reads (again see my post), where as striping (RAID 0) gives you "double" speed reads AND WRITES with two disks. The reason for this is that RAID 0 splits the blocks for a file waiting to be written into two sets and then writes each set simultaneously to each disk.

Hit me back with any questions,

xiphias

[Marsden]

Basic to Dynamic is a one way conversion process. If you convert to Dynamic and decide you don't like it... you are reformatting and starting over.

One of the cool things with Dynamic disks is the ability to hot swap and extend your volumes on the fly... well almost anyway...

Extends the volume with focus into next contiguous unallocated space. A dynamic simple or spanned volume can be extended to any empty space on any Dynamic disk. Using the DISKPART command, you can extend an existing volume into newly created space.

Using a command line

Open Command Prompt. 
Type: 
diskpart

At the DISKPART prompt, type: 
list volume

Make note of the number of the simple volume you want to extend onto another disk.

At the DISKPART prompt, type: 
select volume n

Selects the simple volume, n, you want to extend onto another disk.

At the DISKPART prompt, type: 
list disk

Make note of the number of the disk that you want to extend the simple volume onto.

At the DISKPART prompt, type: 
extend [size=n] [disk=n]

You cannot extend a system volume, boot volume, stripped volume, mirrored volume, or RAID 5 volume.