How Expand Volumes

[nb45]

I have a Windows 2000 Server and i need expand the volume. What is the procedure for this task.
Thanks,

 

[anthony0494]

You can do that through disk management. Right click on My computer, choose manage. This will open an MMC with one of the tools being disk management.

 

[kineticnrgynx]

you can expand a volume only if your disk is dynamica, and also only if the disk was dynamic before you created those volumes in the first place. If you made the disk dynamic after the volumes were made, then you cannot extend the volumes. Also, you need free space available on the disk to expand the volume.

After you've checked all of that, go into disk management like anthony said, go to volumes, rt click on the volume you want to extend and choose extend volume... it's that simple.

 

[SteveBurkett]

Yup! As above, but in the disk management console, you right click the volume set you wish to expand and choose Extend Volume from the short cut menu. This'll fire up the Extend Volume Wizard.

There are a few catches though:

- You can only extend NTFS volumes
- You can't extend volumes that were created on basic discs that have been converted to dynamic discs.Only volumes originally created on a dynamic disk are extensible, or those created after its converted to dynamic.
- You can't shrink volumes, only expand them.
- You can't combine two volume sets.

Hope it helps!