Extend Dynamic System Volume for Windows Server 2003.

Windows dynamic disks is an advanced disk format, which provide some advantages that basic disks have not, such as support for spanning volume into multiple disks, or mirrored volume etc. There is a built-in disk management in Windows Server 2003, and it allows users to convert basic disk to dynamic, then on the dynamic disk users create simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID5 volume to maximize the hard disk performance under Server 2003.

However, some operations on dynamic disks can not be accomplished by Windows 2003 disk management. For example, to extend system volume or boot volume size is not impossible. In other words, when you have not sufficient disk space (low disk space) on the dynamic system volume, you are unable to extend this dynamic system volume (with no contiguous unallocated space). If you intend to extend dynamic system volume without losing any data on Windows Server 2003, you need to convert dynamic volume disk to basic with Dynamic Disk Converter firstly, and then extend the system volume on the basic disk via third party partition software like Partition Assistant Server Edition. Of course, you can again convert the basic disk to dynamic one if you still want to use it as dynamic volume.

Convert dynamic system disk to basic via Dynamic Disk Converter

1. Run the Dynamic Disk Converter and skip a welcome screen page, and you will see its main interface as follows, and choose Method 1 (Convert a dynamic disk back to basic disk), and click the Next button.

2. Here, all dynamic disks will be listed in the following list box, please choose the disk which you want to convert. For an instance, here the hard disk 1 will be converted, and click the Next button to continue.

3. And then, the converter tells you confirm changing the system disk to basic disk. By clicking "Proceed" start work. The process of the conversion only takes 3 to 10 seconds.

Extend dynamic system volume after converting via Partition Assistant Server Edition

The Partition Assistant is a server partition manager software that is specially designed for Windows Server 2003/2008/2000. It can process advanced partition operations without data loss, including Extend System Disk, Resize and Move Partition, Extend System Drive, Repartition, Merge, Split Partition etc. Now, you can use the partition manager assistant to extend dynamic system volume after converting.

1. Download the partition software from http://www.extend-partition.com/download.html to test. You can click "Local Download" then there is a pop out message box program download.

2.Click "Partition Management" to enter into the main function interface and you will see the hard drive information of your working station computer, like disk model, partition file system, capacity etc. Please see the following screenshot:

3.Click the system volume which you want to resize to select the partition you are working on, then click "Resize" and it will pop out the partition move and resize box for you. Please check below:

Based the above instructions, you can understand how to extend dynamic system volume with the both software Dynamic Disk Converter and Partition Assistant Server Edition. Selecting these advanced software are surely a wise plan.

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