Decrease spanned volume size ?

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David Balazic

Hi!

Is there a way to decrease the size of a spanned volume ?
Actually I want to take out one "partition" from a spanned volume.

The spanned volume is made up from 3 partitions ( or whatever they are
called on dynamic disks ) on one disk nad one partition on another
disk. This one part is the only thing on the second disk ( it is
taking up all of the disks capacity ).
This piece on the second disk is the one I want to take out of the
spanned volume, so the disk would became free and I could install
another OS on it.

My current OS is Windows XP Professional.

I want to install an evaluation version of Windows 2003 server, but it
does not recognize the dynamic disk layout correctly and MS docs say
that two OS-es can't be on the same dynamic disk ( a stupid limitation
compared to classic basic disks IMO ). There is 5 GB of unused space
on the first disk, but as I said win2003 installer does not see it.
When I created a partition there in winXP, the win2003 installer
displayed some nonsense for the disks ( on first try, before I created
this partition, it displayed the winXP system volume and the spanned
data volume, but not the free space )

Help! What can I do ?
I looked at powerquests VolumeManager, but it does not run under
winXP.

Regards,
David Balazic
 
No, not in Windows. Third party software like Partition Magic might be able
to help.
 
Chris Lanier said:
No, not in Windows. Third party software like Partition Magic might be able
to help.
Click to expand...

From the PartitionMagic README :

- PartitionMagic does not support volume sets, stripe sets, stripe
sets with parity, or partitions located on disk mirror/duplex
sets configured using Windows NT Disk Administrator. Under
Windows 2000/XP, PartitionMagic supports standard partitions
located on basic disk sets only.


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