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Cannot Extend C Drive receive error volume requires contiguous disk extents

Hello,

I have a brand new Dell server. Its running a hardware RAID 10 with 4 300GB drives. Unfortunately as shipped from Dell it has a tiny 40GB C drive and a 500+GB D drive. After installing Windows updates I have less than 20GB of free space on C. So before going to production I tried to resize the c drive to something more reasonable like 60 or 100GB. I used Paragon Disk Manager and it couldnt resize the volumes. So with the Windows GUI (Server 2008) I converted the disks to dynamic. Then I was able to use Windows to shrink the D drive by 60 GB. That space now shows as "Unallocated" but I cannot right click the C drive and select expand as its grayed out. Paragon cannot do any work with Dynamic disks. I then tried to use the command line DiskPart but it gives me the error "volume requires contiguous disk extents"

Is there any options besides reformating and starting all over?

Thanks

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Lee W, MVP

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Nevermind I fixed it. In a moment of thinking I just deleted the D drive which was empty. Then the GUI allowed to to extend the C by 60GB, then I created a new partition for D and formatted it with NTFS. All is well now.

borgmember

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Wow we posted at the same time but your answer is correct. The new Dell default loads are very clean. No additional software on this one except the drivers. Thanks