Re: Basic to Dynamic disk upgrade

From: Bjorn Landemoo (mvp2.REMOVE_at_landemoo.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:00:30 +0200

Rick

Do NOT upgrade the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to expand a volume
on a dynamic disk if it ever was a partition on a basic disk, as this MS
Knowledge Base article explains:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=225551

Instead, use Diskpart.exe to extend your partition on a basic disk. This
article has more details:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325590

Best regards

Bjorn 

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Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
"Rick Gummerson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>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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