Re: Dynamic Disk



Hi,

You won't be able to do that. You can't extend the System partition.

How To Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308424&sd=tech

How to use Diskpart.exe to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in
Windows XP, and in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590/

Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based
computers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816307

What you can do is e.g. create a partition on free disk space that you have
and move some data there (e.g. you could move pagefile.sys there etc...)...
That should free up some space.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Terje Sundbøe" <tsundboe@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OK%235kwb6FHA.3592@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> My system partition on my win2k3 server is almost empty of free space. I
> will try to convert my disk to dynamic. I have an unallocated (se attached
> image) space on the disk (this is raid 1+5). If I convert this to a
> dynamic disk will it automatically use this space or do I have to make a
> partition first?
>
> Terje
>
>
>
>


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