Cmd.exe Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 I'm sure i'm being a bit dense... but: I have added another disk to my raid array, extended the array size, rescanned the disks in Server 208 R2 disk management. All good. I now have unallocated space behind my extended partition containing logical drives. What i want to do is simply expand the extended partition to take advantage of the unallocated space, but the unallocated space has no option to extend. And i can't find the extended partition as an object to click on to expand. I can extend a volume in the existing 'free space' of the extended partition, but cannot extend the partition itself... What am i missing??
glennda Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 what type of disk is the disk you are trying to expand? Should say something like dynamic or basic
mac_shinobi Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Just a hunch and am most likely wrong but you're not going to say it needs converting to a dynamic disk first before being added onto the end of the extended partition or something along those lines ? 1
glennda Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Just a hunch and am most likely wrong but you're not going to say it needs converting to a dynamic disk first before being added onto the end of the extended partition or something along those lines ? Sorry missed your post originally - yes I'm 99% sure if needs to be a Dynamic Disk as mentioned above. 2
Cmd.exe Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 Thats a shame. I've heard bad things about dynamic disks - especially if they go wrong and you need to recover data. Are there things i should know before i convert? and i assume i can convert without data-loss?
PotNoodleTech Posted June 25, 2012 Posted June 25, 2012 No need for dynamic disks. See here: How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server 2008 1
Cmd.exe Posted July 1, 2012 Author Posted July 1, 2012 No need for dynamic disks. See here: How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server 2008 Yep - this is what i was hoping for! Diskpart command line works a treat, extending a volume into unallocated space automatically extends the extended partition. Cheers! 1
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