RE: low on free space for dynamic conversion

Hi William,

Thanks for your update. I appreciate your time to the issue.

I am sorry for the delayed response due to weekend. Please understand that
the newsgroups are staffed weekdays by Microsoft Support professionals to
answer your systems and applications questions. Your understanding is
greatly appreciated!

If the 8MB of unallocated space reserved by Windows is deleted and used to
create a partition that consumes the entire size of the disk, make the size
of that partition a minimum of 10MB smaller when creating the partition to
reserve space for the LDM database. The solution I provided does not apply
to the scenario that the single partition is also system partition. We can
not delete the system partition. From your description, I understand that
you just have one hard disk and there is only partition on the disk. In
your current scenario, we do not suggest that you upgrade the basic disk to
the dynamic.

Or you need backup the whole system and then re-format the hard disk
following the rules listed above, reinstall Windows, restore from backup,
and then convert partition(s) from basic to dynamic.

You can refer to the following document to backup and restore the SBS
server:
Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-
a82d-0c8d66e2a634&displaylang=en

Please let me know if you have further question on the issue. We are glad
to help.

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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Thanks Mark and Jenny
this is the error message that I receive:
Logical disk manager cannot proceed with the conversion. At least one disk
does not have enough free space to perform the conversion. Check the
space
on the disk and clear space where possible before trying this again.

I only have one drive which is the system partition and the whole drive is
one partition. I don't get the option to delete the partition as this is
greyed out.

Thanks again.
william

""Jenny wu [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi William,

Thanks for using the SBS newsgroup. Also thanks for Mark's input.

From your description, I understand the issue to be: you tried to
convert a
basic disk to a dynamic disk in SBS 2003, you received error message
that
says your disk does not have enough free space for the upgrade. If I am
off
base, please don't hesitate to let me know.

As the Mark said, the issue may occur if there is not enough free space
that is not partitioned at the end of your disk to create the private
region database for the dynamic disk. We can use the following methods
to
work around this problem.

If there is only One Partition on the Disk, you can refer to below steps:

1. Back up all the data on the partition. For information about how to
do
so, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type "ntbackup"
(without
quotation marks), double-click the Backing Up Files topic, and then
double-click Backing Up Files.

2. Start Disk Manager, right-click the partition you backed up in step
1,
and then click Delete Partition.

3. Right-click the disk you want to upgrade to a dynamic disk, click
Upgrade To Dynamic Disk, and then follow the instructions on the screen.

4. Re-create and reformat the volume, and then restore your data to this
volume.

If there are Multiple Partitions on the Disk, you can refer to below
steps:

1. Back up all the data on the last partition on the disk. For
information
about how to do so, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type
"ntbackup" (without quotation marks), double-click the Backing Up Files
topic, and then double-click Backing Up Files.

*NOTE: If the last partition on the disk is a logical drive in an
extended
partition, you must back up your data, and then delete all logical
drives
and the extended partition itself.

2. Start Disk Manager, right-click the last partition, and then click
Delete Partition.

3. Right-click the disk you want to upgrade to a dynamic disk, click
Upgrade To Dynamic Disk, and then follow the instructions on the screen.

4. Re-create and reformat the volume, and then restore your data to this
volume.

More information:
HOW TO: Use the Disk Management Snap-in to Manage Basic and Dynamic
Disks
in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323442

Restrictions on Extending or Spanning Simple Volumes on Dynamic Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225551

Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based
computers
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816307

If the issue persists, please help me collect the following information
for
analyze:

1. Please let me know the exact error message and capture a screen shot
of
the error message and send to my working mailbox: v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

2. Please save the application and system log files to .evt file and
send
to me for analyze.

Hope above information helps. I am happy to be of assistance to you and
look forward to your reply.

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the
corresponding
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manner.
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are
any updates in your thread. When responding to posts via your
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doing
so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.

For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly.
Please
check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.

Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
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