Disk Space Issues While Converting Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk

Under dynamic disk storage, a single partition is involved which covers the entire hard disk, while the disk is divided into number of volumes. A dynamic disk may hold spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, simple volumes, striped volumes and RAID 5 volumes. On the other hand, basic disks use general partition tables and hold basic volumes like extended partitions, primary partitions and logical drives.In order to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, we can use the Disk Management utility and use the corresponding option by right clicking the basic disk to be converted. Dynamic disk uses a database which is intended to track all information about dynamic volumes on the system. This database also contains information about other dynamic disks on a computer system. But, if the system fails to create this database due to issues like insufficient disk space, conversion of basic disk to dynamic disk will not succeed.