Extending partition help needed

[Dsrt]

I have a fresh install of Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. I have a 15 gig partition that holds the OS and the remaining 261 gigs are on a separate partition that holds our main database.

I'm getting to the point where I need to add another drive to the existing database partition.

Right now they are set up as basic disks. I'm assuming I can convert them to dynamic disks then just extend the volume to cover the new hard drive that I put in. If I'm wrong here and I have to have some kind of partition "magic" software, please let me know. The new drive will be in sometime this week.

Thanks for your patience.

 

[aftertaf]

you can convert to dynamic disks, then extend partitions ONLY for partitions that were created since the disk was made dynamic...

if you can stop your server a small time, you could copy over the files to the new disk, then remove the original partition, convert to dynamic, recreate the partition, recopy the files then extend to new disk.....

or something along those lines depending on what you need to do.



Aftertaf
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[Dsrt]

Ok, that makes sense. Didn't want to hear that, but it makes sense. lol

Thanks for the info, that helps.

 

[PScottC]

If your server RAID controller supports it, extend the logical volume on which the data resides with the new disk.

Going with Aftertaf's basic idea, but instead of creating a dynamic partition, just blow away the partition and create a new one after the logical drive has been extended.

PSC

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