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Did you upgrade from Windows previously, could you provide the OS version and what you upgraded from?
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Did you upgrade from Windows previously, could you provide the OS version and what you upgraded from?

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if the disk is mbr then you can't make a partition larger than 2TB
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if the disk is mbr then you can't make a partition larger than 2TB

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from your tags it seems as if you upgraded from Windows Server 2003.<br />
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if so and if the C disk is old, you may consider to backup the disk and restore it to a newer disk which already has a partition of the new size required.<br />
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can you show a screenshot of your Disk Management Volume List view? <br />
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Sara
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from your tags it seems as if you upgraded from Windows Server 2003.

if so and if the C disk is old, you may consider to backup the disk and restore it to a newer disk which already has a partition of the new size required.

can you show a screenshot of your Disk Management Volume List view?

Sara

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Sounds like you are trying to use dynamic disk extension, that is not valid for the boot disk. You need to use an offline tool such as Bootit BM or EaseUS disk manager (or one of the dozen or two alternatives). 2TB limit David Johnson mentions still applies.
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Sounds like you are trying to use dynamic disk extension, that is not valid for the boot disk. You need to use an offline tool such as Bootit BM or EaseUS disk manager (or one of the dozen or two alternatives). 2TB limit David Johnson mentions still applies.

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Yup, that will work Sara although they may have partially shagged it by converting to dynamic disks.
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Yup, that will work Sara although they may have partially shagged it by converting to dynamic disks.

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if you booted from an NTFS boot disk
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alternatively you may add the disk to another computer. but make sure in the bios that the added disk was not used as boot disk. <br />
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check disk management view for the disk number the added disk has. it should be a new number (e. g. number 3 if the system has now 3 disks).<br />
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Sara
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> if you booted from an NTFS boot disk


alternatively you may add the disk to another computer. but make sure in the bios that the added disk was not used as boot disk.

check disk management view for the disk number the added disk has. it should be a new number (e. g. number 3 if the system has now 3 disks).

Sara

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I had C drive Dynamic type disk, Partition sty;e &quot;Master Boot Record&quot; and would like to extend the disk, but i having below prompt upon extending the disk.<br />
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The selected volume is a system or boot disk or was created on a basic disk in an earlier version of Windows and cannot be extended
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I had C drive Dynamic type disk, Partition sty;e "Master Boot Record" and would like to extend the disk, but i having below prompt upon extending the disk.

The selected volume is a system or boot disk or was created on a basic disk in an earlier version of Windows and cannot be extended

Extend disk

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