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Mister_D
Level 3
14 years ago

Server 2003 Spanned Dynamic disk (resize)

Under Server 2003 Disk Management, "extend volume" and "shrink volume" are greyed out.  There are 4 SATA drives that create 2 partitions...  12GB and 211GB  The 12 GB partition holds the OS, but re...
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  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    14 years ago

    Hi Dale,

     

    I'm not sure of the hardware that you are using or what converting logical drives to basic will do to your data.

     

    If you are seeing only one drive from within Windows that contains two partitions then this is the process that you will need to do.

     

    1. Backup DATA from partition 2 (G: with your example.)

    2. Delete partition 2 (G: - shrinking the partition will put the extra space in the wrong location to expand the C: drive.)

    3. Expand partition 1 (C:)

    4. Recreate partition 2 (G: - this will in affect move the starting point of partition 2 to the end of the newly expanded C:.)

    5. Restore DATA to partition 2 (G:)

     

    Again, I'm not sure of what you mean by convertion Logical Drive to Basic and then back to a Logical Drive.  This might wipe out all of your data and your OS.  Please contact your hardware vendor for assistance on this part.

     

    Thanks,

    Wally

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Wally_Heim
Level 6
14 years ago

Hi Dale,

Ok. It sounds like you have partition 2 spanned across 4 disks in LDM or SFW.  When you delete partition 2 the 4 disks are returned to an unused status that are available to use when you recreate partition2.

 

SFW does not have an "unspan" but the "delete volume" option sounds like it is what you are referring to.  Don't forget to backup your data prior to deleting partition 2.

 

Thanks,

Wally