Re: Volume configuration

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Bjorn Landemoo (mvp2.REMOVE_at_landemoo.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:49:43 +0200

Andrew

A partition on a basic disk keeps a record in the partition table, that is
kept when the disk is converted to dynamic, in order to keep the disk
bootable. The tools included in Win2000 cannot change the partition table
entry, and therefore cannot extend the volume. This MS Knowledge Base
article explains:

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

As far as I am aware, there are no third party tools, except "VERITAS
Storage Foundation for Windows", that can extend a volume on a dynamic
disk, and it still has restrictions on the system volume.

If you have a backup since before you upgraded to dynamic disk, restore it,
and then use diskpart.exe from "safe mode with command prompt" to extend
the partition. This MS Knowledge Base article has more information:

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

Best regards

Bjorn 

-- 
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
"Andrew Cross" <crosan1c@hotmail.com> wrote:
>We have a server in the office that was configured some time back with 4x 
>146GB hard drives as a hardware RAID 5.  A colleuge of mine loaded Windows 
>2000 Server on this machine and the machine was not used for a while. 
>Yesterday we needed to use this server to load some software a vendor was 
>demoing for us but noticed the C drive only had 4 GB of Total space.  So I 
>thought, for some reason that the Volume or Partition had not been correctly 
>configured, so I went into the Windows Disk management.  It correctly showed 
>a single partition of 438 GB in the Partition.  We noticed that it was 
>configured as a basic disk, so we thought that we would try converting to a 
>Dynamic disk and extending the volume.  After switching to Dynamic it now 
>tells us it cannot expand the volume because this was originally configured 
>as a Basic disk.  Any ideas on how to get to the additional 434GB of space? 
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>AC 
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Increasing the C: partition size on a SBS 2003 system
    ... I've also used Partition Magic to adjust the partition size of test systems. ... > make sure you can boot off the shadow disk. ... > Don't install Ghost on the server. ... Now replace the primary and secondary drives in their original ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: Increasing the C: partition size on a SBS 2003 system
    ... > I've also used Partition Magic to adjust the partition size of test ... >> to make sure you can boot off the shadow disk. ... Don't install Ghost on the server. ... Now replace the primary and secondary drives in their ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: Linux community software-update-anarchy polemic
    ... Remember, I'm just a monkey. ... That implies that if you have one disk per partition, ... Trust the kernel or don't trust the kernel, but either way, both ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: Disk Space Considerations during Migration
    ... This Server has 2 x 17GB HDD which is ... > As Peter said, 325857 can expand the partition, but the boot partition ... > hard disk, and then expand the boot partition. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.migration)
  • Re: Dual Boot
    ... Did you label your WinXP partition on the WD as 'WinXP"? ... Did you label your server partition on the Maxtor disk as "Server"? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)