Disk Utilites for Dynamic Disks

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Harrison Midkiff

Hello:

I have a W2K server which has 2 disk volumes in it via hardware RAID.

Disk 0 Operating System
Disk 1 User Home Folders

I need to extend the second volume. I can extend the array via the RAID
Controllers tools. When I do this I will end up with free space at the end
of the drive. I want to stretch the partition to the maximum size of the
drive. I know I could create a new partition and then mount a folder if the
first partition, but I would rather nto do that. In the NT world you could
use Server Magic from Power Quest to stretch out a partition. The version
for W2K server is Volume Manager but it does not work on Dynamic Disks. I
have a Dynamic Disk.

Does anyone know of a disk repartitioning utility that works on W2K server
with Dynamic Disk? Thanks.

Harrison Midkiff
 
Joseph:

One final question....

In order for this utility to work the partition had to be created on a
Dynamic disk from the beginning. The server I want to use this on has been
in production for over a year. I am not sure if I converted the disk to
dynamic before I created the partition. Is there a way I can test the
utility before I send a tech on site?

Thanks.

Harrison Midkiff
 
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