A user has a computer with a 100GB IDE hard drive formatted as a single FAT32 partition. This drive is only used to store data. The user adds a second 100GB hard drive and wants to mirror the two drives. When the user goes to disk management there is no option to mirror the drives. Which of the following will resolve this issue?

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C. Convert both drives to a dynamic disk. Windows software RAID features such as mirrored volumes are only available on dynamic disks. A basic disk, even with NTFS formatting, does not expose mirror, spanned, or striped volume options in Disk Management. Converting both drives to dynamic disks upgrades the disk type to support these multi-disk volume configurations without reformatting the data partition.

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A. Convert the partition to NTFS. Converting FAT32 to NTFS changes the file system but does not change the disk type from basic to dynamic, so the mirror option remains unavailable.

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B. Change the partition to be an extended partition. Changing to an extended partition is a partition type change on a basic disk and has no effect on enabling dynamic disk RAID features.

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D. Change the partition to be the active partition. Setting a partition as active marks it as the bootable partition and has no relationship to enabling mirroring in Disk Management.

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