RE: Resizing partitions/volumes

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Hi Jason
Thanks for the links but in all honesty someone answering with a yes or no
answer would of been more helpful as I already had most of the info that you
gave me in those URL's (ok, I admit I should of said that I already had
looked at those articles so my apologies) I just wasnt sure whether I could
safely use something like partition magic or some other way round being able
to extend the volume (boot drive) without either losing the other spanned
volume or completely breaking something else...

Thanks anyway

Regards
David Thomas


"Jason Tan (MSFT)" wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for posting!
>
> Based on my research, I would like to provide you with the following
> article for your reference:
>
> 175761 Dynamic vs. Basic Storage in Windows 2000
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=175761
>
> 225551 Restrictions on Extending or Spanning Simple Volumes on Dynamic Disks
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=225551
>
> 314343 Basic Storage Versus Dynamic Storage in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314343
>
> Hope the information helps. If there is anything that is unclear, please
> feel free to let me know.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Jason Tan
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> | Hi all
> | Hopefully an easy one for you...
> |
> | “I have a windows 2000 advanced server set up with three separate
> physical
> | drives, the main drive (system files) was created as a basic disk (60GB
> drive
> | partitioned into a 6GB drive C and 45GB into another drive (this volume
> can
> | be deleted as I can move the data off)) then upgraded to a dynamic disk.
> The
> | other two drives (2 x 200GB) are dynamic disks and have been set up as a
> | single spanned drive to give us 400GB of space.
> |
> | I have tried to extend the first volume but I am getting the message that
> | the volume cannot be extended because the drive was created as a basic
> disk.
> | Normally I would simply go ahead and rebuild the system but I am paranoid
> | about the spanned drives breaking and us losing the data held on those
> drives.
> |
> | I guess what I am trying to ask here is if I just re-install the OS so
> that
> | I can repartition the first drive, will the spanned volumes stay as one
> drive
> | or will it reset to being two separate drives and me lose all the data on
> the
> | two drives? Taking a back up first might be interesting as the total
> amount
> | of data exceeds 190GB (you can see why I have concerns about losing the
> | mirroring/spanning of the drives)”
> |
> | Thanks for any help you can give
> | Regards
> | Davidt
> |
>
>
.

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