What are the differences between dynamic hard disk and basic hard disk ?

A Basic disk uses the normal partition tables found in MS-DOS and Windows. The volumes contained on a basic disk will be basic volumes, such as primary and extended partitions, and logical drives. Basic disks may also contain multi-disk volumes created by Windows NT4.0 and earlier (volume sets, stripe and mirror sets, and stripe sets with parity). Windows XP and higher will not support these types of multi-disk basic volumes. With these versions of Windows, prior to installing Windows, make sure to back up all data on the hard drive and convert the disk into a dynamic disk.

Not every Operating System (OS) supports Dynamic disks. Dynamic disks are only supported by Windows XP, Vista Ultimate, Vista Enterprise, Windows7 and Windows8. Windows XP Home Edition does not support dynamic disks. Dynamic disks contain simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes.

• • On a basic disk, a partition is a portion of the disk that functions as a physically separate unit. On a dynamic disk, storage is divided into volumes instead of partitions.

• • Storage types are separate from the file system type; a basic or dynamic disk can contain any combination of FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions or volumes.

• Windows XP Professional accommodates both basic and dynamic storage. A disk system can contain any combination of storage types. However, all partitions or volumes on the same disk must use the same storage type (Basic or Dynamic).

Dynamic Hard Disk:

Not every Operating System (OS) supports Dynamic disks. Dynamic disks are only supported by Windows XP, Vista Ultimate, Vista Enterprise, Windows7 and Windows8. Windows XP Home Edition does not support dynamic disks. Dynamic disks contain simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. These volume types are described in detail in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article175761. Dynamic storage allows a user to perform disk and volume management without having to restart Windows.

Basic Hard Disk:

A Basic disk uses the normal partition tables found in MS-DOS and Windows. The volumes contained on a basic disk will be basic volumes, such as primary and extended partitions, and logical drives. Basic disks may also contain multi-disk volumes created by Windows NT4.0 and earlier. Windows XP and higher will not support these types of multi-disk basic volumes. With these versions of Windows, prior to installing Windows, make sure to back up all data on the hard drive and convert the disk into a dynamic disk.

once u convert ur basic Hard disk into dynamic you won't be able to install OS on again but it doesn't mean that it's impossible there are multiple ways but if ur pc will need a clean installation the hard disk won't accept the OS

Basic hard disk has partition while dynamic hard disk has volumes.

Basic disk work on every operating system while dynamic support windows xp or higher