I am having problems partitioning and formatting disks on a backup server. When I attempt to format any disks I get an Logical Disk Management error that ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

In my few hours of searching, it looks like windows does support volumes larger than 2TB, when using dynamic disks, but I cannot even initialize or convert the disk to dynamic in disk ...