How to safely extend or enlarge dynamic disk/volume under Windows?

Dynamic disk support, with volumes spanning multiple disks and flexible volume reconfiguration, is welcomed by most computer users, especially server users. And it indeed offers many advantages, while the limitation of Disk Management provides that only Simple Volume and Spanned Volume can be extended, that is, the dynamic volume still cannot be extended in most conditions, especially for the system volume under PC or servers. This brings much inconvenience and frustration to users.

However, do not worry about this and we would like to provide methods to extend dynamic disk/volume on the Windows server with all the data protected.

Extend dynamic disk volume with Windows built-in Disk Management tool

Windows built-in Disk Management allows users to extend Simple Volume and Spanned Volume from Windows Vista. Apart from the Simple Volume and Spanned Volume, other kinds of dynamic volumes cannot be extended with the Disk Management tool. Besides this, the system/boot volume also cannot be extended as well as the Mirror Volume, Stripped Volume and RAID 5 Volume. In this way, some reliable dynamic disk partition software will be helpful.

How to extend dynamic disk without data loss?

There are many kinds of partition tool for the basic disk but not the dynamic disk. As we all know, Windows Disk Management tool allow users to convert basic disk to dynamic disk and convert dynamic disk back when necessary. However, Disk Management tool does not allow users to convert dynamic disk to basic unless all the partitions has been deleted. All the data will be lost during this operation.

In order to meet the demand of dynamic disk extension, EASEUS provides a safe solution - EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition to resize dynamic disk. Here is a safe way to extend the dynamic disk/volume without any data loss: clone dynamic volume onto the basic disk and resize it, after it is partitioned to the size that you prefer, you can convert this basic disk back to dynamic one.

Steps to copy and resize dynamic disk:

Please download the demo version to have a test yourself.

After it is installed, launch this partition software and follow the steps bellow:

1. Choose the dynamic volume that you want to extend and click Copy Dynamic Volume function.

2. Resize the basic disk to the size that you want.

3. Convert the basic disk back to dynamic disk.

A detailed step instructions about copy dynamic disk and resize partition can be find with the following articles:

• How to copy/clone dynamic disk to basic disk?
• How to resize/move partition without data loss?

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