extending raid5e volume

we have a raid5E setup on our server. win2k advanced
server. we have a data volume where all documents & other
files of our work are stored, this volume contains no
system files. this volume has run out of space. we added
new HDD but i cannot extend this volume as this is basic
volume, so i upgraded it to dynamic volume. but still i
cannot extend as it doest support an upgrade.

now what i intend on doing is to create a new volume as
dynamic using the HDDs i have and then extend the 1st
volume into this.

is this possible?

please advice me on if this the best way out? or is there
any other better solution?

can u help me with any documentations for creating a
raid5e volume?

"sphilip" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:057b01c3acea$b6bf4920$a301280a@phx.gbl:

> we have a raid5E setup on our server. win2k advanced
> server. we have a data volume where all documents & other
> files of our work are stored, this volume contains no
> system files. this volume has run out of space. we added
> new HDD but i cannot extend this volume as this is basic
> volume, so i upgraded it to dynamic volume. but still i
> cannot extend as it doest support an upgrade.
>
> now what i intend on doing is to create a new volume as
> dynamic using the HDDs i have and then extend the 1st
> volume into this.
>
> is this possible?
>
> please advice me on if this the best way out? or is there
> any other better solution?
>
> can u help me with any documentations for creating a
> raid5e volume?
>
>

You can not extend a dynamic volume that is a converted basic volume. It
has to be created dynamic at the start. However there was a better
solution while the volume was basic. Diskpart can be used to extend a
basic volume as long as the additional space is contigious to the first.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;325590

Leonard Severt
Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

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