Re: Basic to Dynamic disk upgrade

From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_cpcNOmedSPAM.org)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:51:07 -0600

You are correct. Operating systems pre Win 2k have no idea what a dynamic
volume is.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Rick Gummerson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:376A4129-BA04-435C-A572-15E56E98CC5D@microsoft.com...
> I have Windows 2000 Server running on RAID 5 with Adaptec controller. I
expanded the array adding additional hard drives with the Adaptec RAID
Manager. The next step, according to Adaptec, is to use Disk Administrator
to expand the volume.
>
> I am currently working with Basic disks, and to expand the volumes I need
to convert to Dynamic Disks.
>
> My concern is whether or not this can be done safely on the system volume
which is part of the RAID 5 set. When I choose to convert the disk fro basic
to dynamic i get the following warning: Once you upgrade these disks to
dynamic, you will not be able to boot previous versions of Windows from any
volumes on these disks.
>
> I am ussuming that this refers to a dual boot enviroment, and is not
referring to the Windows 200 server installation residing on the RAID 5, and
I just want to confirm this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick

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