zhu

After raid created, it is the same as physical hard disk partition. To resize the partitions, don't break the raid array. I come across the tutorial about how to resize partition, it help you.

chazzy2501 Did you do it yourself before? In fact, even if you convert the disk to dynamic, you cannot extend the system volume, too, it will cause problem worse, as no software can resize dynamic disks. Server 2008 could shrink and extend, but 2000 and 2003 cannot. So to backup and resize the server is better, see this tutorial http://www.hdd-tool.com/partition-magic/resize-windows-server-with-partition-magic-software.htm

Hi guys, there is no SW that can resize dynamic disk directly like on a basic disk. To solve the problem, there are two ways. Backup your server and reset the partition size, then restore it again, using GHOST. Little software supports backing up dynamic disk or volume. The second way is copy the dyanmic volume to another basic disk to resize or convert it to basic disk directly. I do not recommend convert dynamic disk directly to basic, as it is dangerous if there is an error when converting, besides, you can only convert simple volume. I've heard that someone using copy dynamic volume to solve this problem, it is safe refer copy dynamic volume tutorial

Many computer users, including me would encounter this problem. It is not clever to ghost the system partition and then restore to another hard disk, complex, why not resize the partition directly. there are many SW that can do this, for example, acronis, but it is too expensive, $699 for server. at last, I found this article Extend System Partition on Windows Server 2003 and solved the problem

no other method? restoring is not always a good idea.