This is a common area of confusion among our students. Partitions are not basic or dynamic. The physical disk is basic or dynamic. Partitions or volumes exist on these basic or dynamic disks, but they are not themselves referred to as being Basic or Dynamic. The vocabulary has changed.
Basic disks contain partitions and Dynamic Disks contain volumes .
The names of the volumes you create have changed as well. Volume Sets are now referred to as Spanned Volumes . Mirror Sets are referred to as Mirrored Volumes . Stripe sets without parity are referred to as Striped Volumes and Stripe Sets with Parity are now called RAID 5 Volumes . The day was going well and nothing wrong had happened yet.