keefe007
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Extended Partition Shows as two separate partitions
I have a Windows 2003 SBS server that contains one drive and has two volumes on it, C: and D:. The disk is a dynamic disk and the filesystems on the volumes are NTFS. For some reason the D: partition is showing up as two separate partitions with the same drive letter, yet the combined space is reported as the total filesystem size.
I do not know this for sure, but I believe at one point(prior to me) the D: partition was extended using Windows Disk Management.
Now I need to resize the C: partition but first I'll need to shrink the D: partition and I will do so with a third-party app, however, every app I tried won't resize D: due to the double partition thing. Once I correct that I should be able to resize it and then resize the other partition.
How can I go about fixing this D: partition?
I have attached a screenshot showing the disk management console.
disk-management.jpg
I do not know this for sure, but I believe at one point(prior to me) the D: partition was extended using Windows Disk Management.
Now I need to resize the C: partition but first I'll need to shrink the D: partition and I will do so with a third-party app, however, every app I tried won't resize D: due to the double partition thing. Once I correct that I should be able to resize it and then resize the other partition.
How can I go about fixing this D: partition?
I have attached a screenshot showing the disk management console.
disk-management.jpg
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Ideally I'd like to fix this issue without having to copy all of the data off and then back on.
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Did you try easeus partition manager?
Can't see any merge options in that software either jaynir.
What would have been good when the second partition was created was to have us DISKPART to exend the existing D: drive into the free space - simple and effective.
Now you would need to backup, delete and then re-create the partition as a single volume.
What would have been good when the second partition was created was to have us DISKPART to exend the existing D: drive into the free space - simple and effective.
Now you would need to backup, delete and then re-create the partition as a single volume.
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keefe007 will succeed if he follows my instructions given in comment ID: 24812363. This procedure is time tested and worked on up to 10 configurations. No known failure.
My suggestion is split points: Noxcho 250 and alanhardisty 250.
My suggestion is split points: Noxcho 250 and alanhardisty 250.
I'd be happy to go along with noxcho on his idea to split - we both have working solutions and if tried, would give the solution to the problem.
Expand the D: drive to fill up the remaining space and put the data back onto the D: drive.
A great tool for this job (that I can personally recommend) would be Paragon's Partition Manager Server:
http://www.paragon-software.com/business/pm-server/