Covert Simple Partition on Dynamic Disk????

[Rootman]

Well the dudes that setup our server choose BASIC disks, which means
that the BASIC partition on it cannot be extended since it was created
BEFORE it was converted to a dynamic disk.

I already have the disk converted to dynamic but of course cannot
extend the volume.

After fruitless searches about cenverting this simple partition to a
"dynamic partition" I have decied to post here and see if anyone knows
of any after market utility that will do this.

Anyone know of a way other than backing up, destroy that partition and
recreate and restore contents?

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Rootman

A partition on a basic disk can be extended using diskpart.exe. A volume on
a dynamic disk that ever was a partition on a basic disk can not be
extended. Normally, while installing, only the first partition is created
on a basic disk, then the disk is upgraded to dynamic, and last other
volumes are added.

Perhaps Ghost can be of help, it can make images of volumes on dynamic
disks.

I am not aware of any other software that handles dynamic disks.

Best regards

Bjorn