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Partitons appear with same drive letter
Hi All,
Just have a quick question. I am working with an Admin who is experiencing a strange issue with some partitions he created on a Dynamic Disk. Using Disk Management on his Server 2008 R2 server he shrunk a volume down to create a 450GB volume. He then assign a drive letter to the volume and found that 2 additional volumes where created with the same drive letter. All 3 volumes equal the size of the volume he created. When he changes one volume Drive Letter the others change to.
I have included the screen shots sent to me from the server. I think it is down to how he created the first volume and now it has split the volume into 3 slices (if that makes sense).
Just wondering if anyone can shed some light. I have asked the admin to deleted the volume and reformat it as a single volume and then try to re-create it.
comp-management.jpg
windows-explorer.jpg
Just have a quick question. I am working with an Admin who is experiencing a strange issue with some partitions he created on a Dynamic Disk. Using Disk Management on his Server 2008 R2 server he shrunk a volume down to create a 450GB volume. He then assign a drive letter to the volume and found that 2 additional volumes where created with the same drive letter. All 3 volumes equal the size of the volume he created. When he changes one volume Drive Letter the others change to.
I have included the screen shots sent to me from the server. I think it is down to how he created the first volume and now it has split the volume into 3 slices (if that makes sense).
Just wondering if anyone can shed some light. I have asked the admin to deleted the volume and reformat it as a single volume and then try to re-create it.
comp-management.jpg
windows-explorer.jpg
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Hi Albert, Just a quick follow up question. Is it best to use Basic or Dynamic Disks when you are using a SAN. The admin is using a Dell MD3200 via SAS/HPA for storage requirements. Just wondering if Disk 1 (from the image) should have been created as a Basic disk from the start and would it cause any issues with flexibility or creating volumes.
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Hi Guys, Thanks for the response. I just wanted to confirm my own take on it. Admin was adamant that they use dynamic disk (even though they are using a SAN already).
Again thanks for the great replies, much appreciated.
Again thanks for the great replies, much appreciated.
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Thanks for the feedback. Thats what I was thinking. Pretty there is no way to extended them into one but there you go.