RE: Expand Dynamic Disk (Mirrorred)



No, it's impossible to expand a mirrored drive without corrupting data.

Charles

"Jan Smit" wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I have a server running on Windows 2003 Standard Edition + SP1 with Dual
> PIII 1.0GHz and 2GB RAM. It runs many background services on my network.
> There are two seperate SCSI controllers in the server and two 18GB SCSI
> disks are configured as a Dynamic Disk using Mirroring.
>
> I want to expand the capacity of the disks by replacing the disk on the
> primary controller with a 145GB SCSI drive, rebuild the mirrorset en then
> replace the disk on the secondary controller and rebuild the mirrorset
> again. Then expand the mirrorset siz to it's full capacity (145GB).
>
> Can this be done or do I need other tools? Which tools are preferred and
> affordable?
>
>
> Jeroen
>
>
>
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