3-20 Advanced Disk and Volume Management Using Array Manager
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Extending a Dynamic Simple or Spanned Volume
You can extend a volume only if the following are true:
• The volume is formatted as NTFS.
• The volume was originally created on a dynamic disk.
• There is unallocated space on a dynamic disk onto which volume can be extended.
You cannot extend a volume if any of the following are true:
• The volume is formatted as FAT or FAT32.
• The volume is using software RAID (striped, mirrored, or RAID 5 volume).
• There is no unallocated space available on a dynamic disk.
You can extend simple and spanned volumes on dynamic disks onto a maximum of 32
dynamic disks. After a volume is extended, it cannot be mirrored or striped using software
RAID. No portion of a spanned volume can be deleted without deleting the entire spanned
volume.
1Right-click the simple or spanned volume you want to extend and then click Extend
Volu me.
The selected volume appears in the dialog box along with its current size.
2Enter the amount to extend the volume and click OK.
Ignore any system messages that you might see whi le the volume extends. You do not
have to run any special utilities.
3Click OK.
The volume now shows the size of the extended volume.