Extending a partition on a logical drive
(Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows NT 4.0
only)
If you have increased the size of a logical drive,
you can extend the partition on that logical drive to use the newly added
space.
Notes:
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- To complete this procedure, you must be logged on as one of the
following:
- An administrator
- A member of the Administrators group
- If your server is connected to a network, network policy settings might
prevent you from completing this procedure.
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
- After completing "Increase logical drive space," shut down and restart the
server.
- In the lower-left corner of the desktop, click Start
Programs
Administrative Tools
Computer Management. The Computer
Management window opens.
- Right-mouse click the volume and click Extend Volume.
- Follow the Extend Volume wizard instructions.
Notes:
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- You cannot extend the following types of volumes:
- Striped
- Mirrored
- RAID level-5
- FAT or FAT32 format
- System
- Startup (boot)
- Simple or extended volumes that were upgraded from basic to dynamic.
- You can extend a volume only if the volume is formatted using NTFS
or does not contain a file system.
- You can extend a simple or extended volume only if the volume was
created as a dynamic volume.
- You can extend a simple volume if the extension will occur within its
original physical drive or onto additional physical drives.
- After a volume is extended onto multiple drives (spanned), it cannot be
mirrored or striped.
- You can extend simple and spanned volumes on dynamic disks onto a
maximum of 32 dynamic disks.
- After a spanned volume is extended, you cannot delete any portion of the
volume without deleting the entire spanned volume.
Windows NT 4.0
- After completing "Increase logical drive space," shut down and restart the
server.
- In the lower-left corner of the desktop, click Start
Programs
Administrative Tools (Common)
Disk
Administrator. The Disk Administrator window opens.
- Hold the Ctrl key down and right-click both the old volume and the new
free space on the logical drive; then, click Extend Volume Set.
- Type the total size you want for the partition.
- Click OK.
- Right-mouse click the volume and click Commit Changes Now. A
confirmation window opens.
- Click Yes. Another confirmation window opens.
- Click Yes.
Notes:
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- You can extend a volume only if it is formatted using NTFS. You must
convert FAT volume sets to NTFS before you can extend them.
- You can extend volume sets onto a maximum of 32 physical drives.
- You cannot extend the volume where the Windows NT 4.0 system files
reside.
- After a volume is extended, you cannot delete any portion of the volume
without deleting the entire volume.
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