How to extend a System Volume on a dynamic disk?

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I need to extend my system volume on the above, all documentation says that
you can't, but i know that it has been done on Server 2003, is there any way
to circumvent the limitation?

It would save me a lot of time on my MCE box (on my network) in a very
compact installation. Limitations of the motherboard require me to install in
a very complicated way two tuners and network. last time it took me 6 hours.
 
Sepp said:
I need to extend my system volume on the above, all documentation says that
you can't, but i know that it has been done on Server 2003, is there any way
to circumvent the limitation?

It would save me a lot of time on my MCE box (on my network) in a very
compact installation. Limitations of the motherboard require me to install in
a very complicated way two tuners and network. last time it took me 6 hours.
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Why not use hardware RAID-0?

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The point is:

do you really have no idea of the maximum amount of data to collect?
Don't ask for un-necessary scalability!

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HI,

i am running Raid 0, and my install limited me to half the apperend disk
quota, i have 2 200GB, raid 0 should give about 390 GB, i have one volume of
198 GB.

This is the reason.

Thanks
 
Sepp said:
HI,

i am running Raid 0, and my install limited me to half the apperend disk
quota, i have 2 200GB, raid 0 should give about 390 GB, i have one volume of
198 GB.

This is the reason.

Thanks
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I haven't started my journey into RAID. But are you sure that you setup
right? Did you use cheap RAID card?

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Sepp said:
Hi,

no my MCE cost me about 3K.
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Are you just an MCSE or a hardware guy?

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Sepp said:
I need to extend my system volume on the above, all documentation
says that you can't, but i know that it has been done on Server 2003,
is there any way to circumvent the limitation?

It would save me a lot of time on my MCE box (on my network) in a very
compact installation. Limitations of the motherboard require me to
install in a very complicated way two tuners and network. last time
it took me 6 hours.
Click to expand...

You stated elsewhere you are using RAID 0. This makes your problem even
harder to solve. It sounds like something may have gone wrong with the RAID
setup. To extend the system volume you would have to use 3rd party software.
It can't be done with XP alone. Depending on your RAID controller some 3rd
party disk management software may not work. You also need to sort out why
the RAID isn't working properly. In the XP disk management console how many
drives show up? In the RAID configuration how many drives show up?
 
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