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A Simple volume contains space from a single disk.

A Spanned volume contains space from multiple disks (maximum of 32) with each disk being
filled sequentially before the next disk. If a single disk fails in a volume set then the entire volume
set is lost. As more disks are added to the volume set, performance is degraded.
A Striped set contains free space from a maximum of 32 disks into one logical drive. Increases performance by reading/writing data from all disks at the same rate. If a disk in a stripe set fails, all data is lost.

Dynamic Volumes cannot be directly accessed by DOS, Win95/98 or any versions of Windows NT if you are dual-booting, since they do not use the traditional disk organization scheme of partitions and logical volumes.

The MBR on a dynamic disk contains a pointer to disk configuration data stored in the last 1 MB of space at the end of the disk.

Dynamic volumes which were upgraded from basic disk partitions cannot be extended, especially the sys-tem volume which holds hardware-specific files required to start Windows 2000 and the boot volume. Volumes created after the disk was upgraded to dynamic can be extended.

Windows 2000 cannot be installed on a volume that was created from unallocated space on a dynamic volume.
Dynamic volumes are not supported on laptop computers.

A basic drive is a drive that uses a partition table.

A dynamic disk is a physical disk that does not contain partitions or logical drives. It may only contain dynamic volumes. Dynamic Disks may contain an unlimited number of Dynamic volumes, which are only directly accessible by Windows 2000, and XP. A Dynamic disk cannot be accessed by DOS.

A volume is a portion of a disk that functions as if it were a physically different disk. A volume or a volume set is a given amount of hard drive space. It may be on a single disk or spread out over many disks. If a volume is spread over multiple drives then it is a spanned volume.