All basic disks can be upgraded to dynamic disks through Storage Foundation for Windows. To upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk, you need to create a dynamic disk group and include the disk in the group.

See Create dynamic disk groups.

The basic disk does not have to include a partition on it; but if it does, a primary partition becomes a simple dynamic volume and any logical drives within an extended partition also become simple volumes. The extended partition will no longer exist.

The process of upgrading a basic partition to a dynamic volume is called "encapsulation," because it encapsulates the partition information within the dynamic volume structure.

You can also upgrade your system and boot partition to a dynamic disk and then mirror it.