merging logical drives
I am running windows server 2008 and my C drive is running out of the space, I have D,E and F drive but they are in a saperate logical disks like, C drive is in disk0, D drive is in disk1 and etc, I tried to use minitool partition wizard server edtion but it didn't work for me so is it possiple to merge this logical drives into one C drive
Regards Fahad.
Regards Fahad.
Even if they're not empty, it may still be possible with a similar process to the above.
Right click on each of the D, E & F volumes in disk manager and shrink the volume. There are limits to just how far you can shrink an NTFS volume with the inbuilt tools due to things like where NTFS stores the partition map.
Once they're all shrunk, you should then be able to reclaim the new space from them as above.
There are third party tools that can do this for you too from free (gparted, for example) to paid-for (Acronis) but be careful. Firstly ensure you have a good backup as this kind of low-level activity can cause issues if something goes wrong such as loss of power or an "oops" moment.
Also, if you do have data on these partitions, I'd be very wary of trying to collapse them into a single partition - you may have things referencing those specific drives.
A more graceful and potentially safer, if somewhat slower and potentially more expensive, method may be to put in a larger disk, and do a backup and restore from the existing to the new. Again, the likes of Acronis do some really good disk-to-disk imaging tools, but at a cost.
Right click on each of the D, E & F volumes in disk manager and shrink the volume. There are limits to just how far you can shrink an NTFS volume with the inbuilt tools due to things like where NTFS stores the partition map.
Once they're all shrunk, you should then be able to reclaim the new space from them as above.
There are third party tools that can do this for you too from free (gparted, for example) to paid-for (Acronis) but be careful. Firstly ensure you have a good backup as this kind of low-level activity can cause issues if something goes wrong such as loss of power or an "oops" moment.
Also, if you do have data on these partitions, I'd be very wary of trying to collapse them into a single partition - you may have things referencing those specific drives.
A more graceful and potentially safer, if somewhat slower and potentially more expensive, method may be to put in a larger disk, and do a backup and restore from the existing to the new. Again, the likes of Acronis do some really good disk-to-disk imaging tools, but at a cost.
If the logical drives are detected as partitions on separate disk (you said Diks0 - C: and Disk1 - D: etc) then no change to combine the space.
But best answer you would get if you take screen shot of Windows Disk Management and post it here.
But best answer you would get if you take screen shot of Windows Disk Management and post it here.
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Ewww, dynamic disks :(
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The reason is all the expert comments were not helpfull so I got the solution from my self
If you extend partition to spanned volumes, there's no fault tolerance and one failed disk will affect the whole partition.