Extend System Volume On Dynamic Disk under Windows Server 2003

Windows built-in Disk Management allows users to extend Simple Volume and Spanned Volume from Windows Server 2003, however, following operations are not impossible:

1. Extend System Volume/ Boot Volume.

2. Expand Mirrored Volume.

3. Increase Striped Volume.

4. Extend RAID5 Volume.

In this way, some reliable dynamic disk partition software will be helpful.

If you want to extend dynamic system volume on Windows Server 2003 without data loss, with the convert dynamic volume function you can easily achieve this. You can use EASEUS Partition Master convert dynamic volume to basic disk firstly, and then extends the system partition on basic directly. If you still need to use dynamic volume, you can convert the basic disk back to dynamic in Disk Management again.

How to extend dynamic system volume on Windows Server 2003

EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition may help you realize extend dynamic system volume problems to solve low disk, backup or disk replacement problems. Just free download a trial version to have a test now.

1. Install the EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition, open it and find a main board:

2. Select dynamic disk which you want to convert to basic disk on the disk map, click "Disk" on main menu and choose "Convert to Basic Disk" or right click the dynamic disk and choose "Convert to Basic Disk".

3. After you choose "Convert to Basic Disk", you will see the dynamic disk has become basic disk on the disk map.

4. Click "Apply" to convert dynamic disk to basic disk. After EASEUS Partition Master applies these changes, you will see the dynamic disk has been become basic disk in Windows Disk Management. And then you can use "Resize/Move" feature to resize partitions on the basic disk.

5. After resizing the basic disk, you can convert them back to dynamic disk by Windows built-in disk management. See the tutorial for the detailed instructions: Transform the basic disk into dynamic disk.

Notice: Volumes can be converted to Simple Volume or Mirrored Volume only, as Striped/Spanned/RAID5 dynamic volumes should be re-built in Disk Management.

Tips:

1. This Convert to Basic Disk feature is unavailable in Linux bootable disk.

2. This Convert to Basic Disk feature can only process dynamic disk with simple and mirrored volumes. The other types of dynamic volume like spanned volume, striped volume are not supported. How to convert dynamic disk with mirrored volumes?

3. This Convert to Basic Disk feature can only support converting up to 4 simple volumes on dynamic disk. Because the basic disk based on MBR can only create up to 4 primary partitions.

4. All other operations are not available before "Convert to Basic Disk" is applied.

5. After converting, all volumes will be primary partitions.

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