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Re-sizing Dynamic Partitions

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by chosho 1 view

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Is there a utility or a way to re-size a partition on a Windows 2000 Dynamic disk? I have tried PM7 and Volume Manager but they don't recognize dynamic disks.

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by rapidad

Usually dynamic disk refers to several disks in a raid array. If this is the case usually the raid array software will allow resizing. Let us know if and what type of array you have.........

by chosho

The customer had 2 SCSI 10gb dynamic drives in a RAID1 mirror. It was a SBS 2K install with 2 partitions, boot partition was 4gb and the second was used for a 6gb data partition. The customer had me install 2 more 20gb SCSI drives. I set them up as a second dynamic RAID1 mirror. I then moved the data from partition 2 on mirror 1 to one large partition on mirror 2. I deleted partition 2 on mirror 1 and tried to expand the boot partition to use all the space on mirror 1. Partition Magic 7 and Volume Manager 2.05 do not recognize dynamic disks. The server was a HP Netserver E800 and the controller didn't have a way to manipulate partitions or setup RAID. Sorry I wasn't more specific.

by r. a. caluste

Dynamic volumes are new to Windows 2000. If you need to increase the size of the volume, you can make it into a spanned set, i.e., joining multiples simple volumes together and treated as a single drive.

hope this helps.

by timwalsh

According to the Win2K Server Resource Kit, you cannot extend or span either system or boot partitions. Therefore, your only recourse to accomplih what you want to do is to reinstall the OS.

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