Dynamic Disks

[Bruce A. Julseth]

My Laptop came with a harddrive (30 Gig) with two partitions (C:, D. I
just converted this harddrive to a "Dynamic Disk". I now have a harddrive
with both partitions as Dynamic Disks (the same C: and D: drives) plus 24
meg of unallocated space.

Now, I had expected to be able to allocate "volumes" using the "Unused"
space on the C: and D: partitions. But I can't find a way to do this.

Is there any way to create volumes using the unused space on the C: and D:
partitions?

Thank you...

Bruce

 

[CS]

My Laptop came with a harddrive (30 Gig) with two partitions (C:, D. I
just converted this harddrive to a "Dynamic Disk". I now have a harddrive
with both partitions as Dynamic Disks (the same C: and D: drives) plus 24
meg of unallocated space.

Now, I had expected to be able to allocate "volumes" using the "Unused"
space on the C: and D: partitions. But I can't find a way to do this.

Is there any way to create volumes using the unused space on the C: and D:
partitions?

Thank you...

Bruce

Go to the MSKB and do a search for "Dynamic Disk". You'll find many
articles, one of which should answer your question.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;kbhowto&sd=GN&ln=EN-US&FR=0

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
Check it here:-
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...p/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_dynamic_overview.mspx

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

My Laptop came with a harddrive (30 Gig) with two partitions (C:, D. I
just converted this harddrive to a "Dynamic Disk". I now have a harddrive
with both partitions as Dynamic Disks (the same C: and D: drives) plus 24
meg of unallocated space.

Now, I had expected to be able to allocate "volumes" using the "Unused"
space on the C: and D: partitions. But I can't find a way to do this.

Is there any way to create volumes using the unused space on the C: and D:
partitions?

See Help and support, search on Dynamic disk and use the methods in
Change back to basic disk.

Your partitions are probably both primary partitions. I would leave
well alone at that scale. But is you must have further subdivision get
a third party partition manager like Partition Magic and use that. You
could for example shrink both to make free space, make an extended
partition in that and make a lot of separate volumes inside that
extended one.

But do NOT use dynamic disks on single drives - it is a technique for
making several separate physical drives look like one - mainlly for
servers

 

[Bruce A. Julseth]

See Help and support, search on Dynamic disk and use the methods in
Change back to basic disk.

Your partitions are probably both primary partitions. I would leave
well alone at that scale. But is you must have further subdivision get
a third party partition manager like Partition Magic and use that. You
could for example shrink both to make free space, make an extended
partition in that and make a lot of separate volumes inside that
extended one.

But do NOT use dynamic disks on single drives - it is a technique for

This is exactly what I was planning on doing. Rather then use something like
Partition Magic, I was going to use "Volumes" to accomplish the same thing.
Are you saying I should go this way. If so, mind telling me why. All the
"reading" I have done, seems to imply that what I was trying to accomplish
was okay.

making several separate physical drives look like one - mainlly for
servers

Thank you for your response. Your answer was what I was afraid the situation
was.

I guess, for now, I'll leave "well enough alone."

Bruce

 

[Alex Nichol]

This is exactly what I was planning on doing. Rather then use something like
Partition Magic, I was going to use "Volumes" to accomplish the same thing.
Are you saying I should go this way. If so, mind telling me why. All the
"reading" I have done, seems to imply that what I was trying to accomplish
was okay.

Volumes in the Dynamic disk context are not the same thing, and the
inbuilt software can only do a rebuild of the basic partition layout by
deleting partitions and starting over. After reverting to basic,, you
could delete the second one, make an extended in its place and make
volumes in that if you wish.

 

[Bruce A. Julseth]

Volumes in the Dynamic disk context are not the same thing, and the
inbuilt software can only do a rebuild of the basic partition layout by
deleting partitions and starting over. After reverting to basic,, you
could delete the second one, make an extended in its place and make
volumes in that if you wish.

Thanks... I "THINK" I understand what you are trying to say. If I use
Partition Magic, I be able to get what I want, namely a standalone partition
for my data files and volumes won't be needed. I'm discussing my home,
standalone system..