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Can someone please explain to me exactly what a "dynamic disk" is (using Win2k).

I just got an 80GB hard drive and was about to do the "old fashion" procedure that I'm so familiar with of doing an Fdisk and partitioning then formatting each partition before I could even think of doing anything with the HD. But instead I decided to plug it in and see what Win2k can do with it. It told me the disk needed formatting and gave me the option of FAT32 or NTFS of which I went with NTFS. So now I have a huge "dynamic disk". What is that, exactly?

Is a dynamic disk any different than a normal NTFS formatted disk?

Could I make it active and boot from it if needed?

Could I wipe it and do a clean OS install to it? (as I begrudgingly move away from FAT disks.)