Dynamic Disk and extended volume

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Windows 2000 Server SP4
Drive 0 - System
Drive 1 - Data
Drive 2 - New Drive

My data drive is running short on space. I installed a third drive thinking
I could extend Drive 1 to the new drive. I Upgraded Drive 1 to a Dynamic
disk. Within Disk Management when I right click on the drive and select
"Extend the Volume" I get and error "the selected volume was originally
created on a basic disk and cannot be extedned. Only volumes originally on
dynamic disks can be extedned."
If I click on the Drive I on the left side I have the option of creating a
volume. Am I missing something here? I would really like to extend this
drive to the new drive but am not sure how to approach this.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Suehf

This MS Knowledge Base article explains why it doesn't work:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=225551

You have two options. Copy the files from disk 1 to disk 2, delete the
volume on disk 1, create a new volume on disk 1 while it is dynamic, copy
the files back, delete the volume on disk 2, convert to dynamic, and then
extend. The other option would be to mount disk 2 as a folder on disk 1, as
this article describes:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314449

Best regards

Bjorn
 
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