extending a basic volume. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage () how can i extend a basic partition that i have on my pc with out the need of converting it to a dynamic disk. i was told that it's possible but i need some...

the system mark this as a two- piece volume, or combine the two pieces into one volume the way it seems to do if you extend a partition on a basic volume? I extended a partition on a basic disk, and ran diskmap afterwards, and it *seems* to be one normal...

NTFS ?). In the diskmanager console, see > the help for "extend basic volumes" -- there is a command line version and > a windows version. You can't do it to a system volume or boot volume> (I had forgotten that part), but you can do it to any other volume...

or boot volume. I've seen a spanned system volume though and extending would be the only way?! if the volume is created as extended then WXP can then be installed. Maybe the systems you have seen were done this way. Quote from here " When basic volumes...

Volume instead of a Basic Volume, so that a partition could be spread out on both sides of another partition. The disk itself is still a Dynamic Disk. But by right-clicking I can't see anywhere where to convert a Simple Volume to a Basic Volume, if that is...

and can be extended: - Simple volumes and spanned volumes that are created from unallocated space on a dynamic disk. - A basic volume that is not the system volume or the boot volume, but it is on a disk that you converted from a basic disk to...

that extended partition. The extended partition itself does get a "drive" letter, but each of the logical drives within it gets a letter. Each primary partition and each logical drive is a "volume" and each volume is assigned a "drive letter". In...

disks. A basic disk contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives). Dynamic disk storage uses volume-oriented disks, and includes features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple...

scratch' data, and installations of kids games. Nothing I can't afford to lose, but too much to backup elsewhere, and a bit of a time hit to rebuild it. I directed PM 8 to extend the D partition from 102GB to 120GB (allowing me to use 136GB of the disk,...