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Expanding Basic drives

I am going to expand my san drives. I am working on expanding the e: with the space that is on the new volume.  Because the disks are basic and the new volume is on disk 1 instead of disk 0 is it possible to still expand.
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No, Both Disks would have to be Dynamic (which you do not want to do to Disk 1) and then you would have to create a spanned Volume.
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Based on your screen capture I am wondering if you are tying to use a partition on your C drive as part of the SAN (Disk 0).  If this is the case then, no you cannot expand the SAN array using this drive.  

If you are using a RAID controller for your SAN group and the new volume is a separate HDD not a partition on your C drive they you should be able to expand the SAN array.  If this is the case you then you will need to make the new HDD a member of the RAID during your boot.  Once windows boots you should see the drive as unallocated space on disk 0 instead of a new volume on disk 1.  

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Oh sorrt, didn't look at the screenshot. Looks like you have extended the wrong logical drive under the ACU. You can probably delete the current logical disk and extend the other one instead.
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Ok.  In the SAN how do I delete the space from that drive and increase it on the other drive.  When I looked at the server in the san configuration it showed it spanned across 6 and 11.  I expanded 11 but should have expanded 6 I think.  Can I remove that space from 11 and put it on 6 instead?
I'm afraid not, you would have to delete the whole logical disk which is presumably your boot/OS disk and create it again. That would need Ghost or similar and you would then have to setup the BIOS on the HBA because you would probably get a different LUN number.
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So I am trying to decide what to do.  Is it a bad SAN practice to use space with system drive.  Can I create a logical drive out of that space or would that cause me more issues later?
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