jlavery
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Basic to Dynamic and Extend size of Disk
I have a windows 2012 Data Center Server
it has an iscsi connected SAN for disks (not the C Drive, which is DAS)
one of the volumes on the SAN is configured for 6TB, however the Drive on the server is only capable of seeing 2TB and of course running low on space.
the drive that is only seeing 2TB is Basic not Dynamic disk in Disk Management
this drive on the server has a good amount of data on it so apprehensive to do anything crazy
i need this disk to be the 6TB the volume is configured for.
how do i do this without any fear of losing data?
i do see the ability to switch from Basic to dynamic in disk management, however concerned about doing so without data loss.
once i get past the basic to dynamic switch how do we extend to increase the size?
it has an iscsi connected SAN for disks (not the C Drive, which is DAS)
one of the volumes on the SAN is configured for 6TB, however the Drive on the server is only capable of seeing 2TB and of course running low on space.
the drive that is only seeing 2TB is Basic not Dynamic disk in Disk Management
this drive on the server has a good amount of data on it so apprehensive to do anything crazy
i need this disk to be the 6TB the volume is configured for.
how do i do this without any fear of losing data?
i do see the ability to switch from Basic to dynamic in disk management, however concerned about doing so without data loss.
once i get past the basic to dynamic switch how do we extend to increase the size?
Dynamic won't help anyway, you only broke the 2TB barrier using dynamic disks by slicing the logical disk up into 2TB lumps and then concatenating them again.
You can use something like Easus partition manager to convert it to GPT, but backup first.
You can use something like Easus partition manager to convert it to GPT, but backup first.
There is software whoch converts the drive into GPT format without loosing the data. Use Acronis or Paragon Hard Disk Manager for this.
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Hello,
Seth was on it. drive was made as MBR vs GPT.
nothing to really do here on this other than 3rd party tools like acronis and paragon
they created a new drive, made it GPT and just started moving data over to it.
Seth was on it. drive was made as MBR vs GPT.
nothing to really do here on this other than 3rd party tools like acronis and paragon
they created a new drive, made it GPT and just started moving data over to it.
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i'm guessing the disk is MBR hence the 2tb limit?
i would be more inclined to backup the data, create as GPT and restore rather than convert to dynamic