Re: diskpart to extend basic partition "volume may not be extended

hmmm... I ran into some inconsistencies with Diskpart before.

sometimes it doesn't do what it should do, and this is what I did to correct
this.

1) this is not a system or boot disk !! this is important.
2) if you look at Disk Management, you see the partition at its original
size (not extended)
3) in Diskpart, you will see the partition (not volume) at its extended size
4) try Diskpart "extend filesystem" command (not documented in the diskpart
help)... see KB 832316
5) if that does not extend your filesystem the open a support case with
Microsoft and ask for a utility called "fsextend.exe" which will extend your
file systme.

The situation I encountered I had to use the last option as all others did
fail. So this "fsextend.exe" utility does actually do something else then
Diskpart..... funny as both are MS tools, you would think that the
fsextend.exe functionality is build into Diskpart.

HTH,
Edwin.


"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1F50135E-E3A9-4990-96DE-67FA3A231B10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I ran diskpart to extend the partition and received the errors listed in
my
initial post. Am I receiving this error due to my raid configuration 1E
which
is stripe and mirror?
Thanks
Tina

""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Tina,

If the SP2 has been applied, Diskpart.exe should be used to extend
logical
drive.

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| Hi Ken,
| Yes SP2 is installed on the server as well as all the critical
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| Thanks!
| Tina
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| ""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:
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| > Hello Tina,
| >
| > Thank you for using newsgroup!
| >
| > From your post, I am not sure if you have applied SP1 on the Windows
Server
| > 2003 server. If not, I suggest you check the following article and
update
| > the version of Diskpart:
| > 841650: The DiskPart.exe utility cannot extend a logical drive in an
| > extended partition in Windows Server 2003
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841650/en-us
| >
| > Or please apply SP1 on the server to see if it can help.
| >
| > Thanks & Regards,
| >
| > Ken Zhao
| >
| > Microsoft Online Support
| > Microsoft Global Technical Support Center
| >
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