Extend, Shrink and Resize Dynamic Volumes

Dynamic disk is an advantage disk format than basic disk; it has features
of create the simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, and mirrored
volume and RAID5 volume. With these predominant functions it provides
better service of protecting data and enhancing read/write performance by
the fault tolerance and striped volume.
Now we introduce emphasis two dynamic volumes with fault tolerance–
mirrored volume (provide data redundancy) and RAID5 (Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Disks). Mirrored volume—anything can be written into the two
disks simultaneously; once disks fail or corrupt, you still have a backup
to replace the failed or corrupted disks. RAID5—combined by striped volume
and mirrored volume, means absorbing both advantages, let you improve the
read/write speed of data with fault-tolerant.
In case you are familiar with the procedure of the methods to extend
shrink and resize the dynamic volume already, you may sill come around
many problems to finish such works. Though not all the Windows operating
systems are able to extend shrink and resize the dynamic volumes, we can
accomplish these operations through the built-in disk manager in
Windows7/Vista/2008.
We choose two simple typical ways to introduce about resizing the
mirrored volume here.
1. Particular way
• Break the mirror before resize it until completed.
• Again add mirror for the volume.
2. Another way (different from the particular way totally).
• Use the Dynamic Disk Converter to convert dynamic disk to basic one.
• Use the Partition Manager to resize the basic partition.
• Again convert the basic disk to dynamic disk and add mirror to re-make
it become mirrored volume.
Read the procedures above, you learn to operate. You find mirrored volumes
not be resized directly, to extend, shrink and resize it you have to
experience so many complicated.
• It is possible to resize the simple volume and spanned volume, but to
the striped volume and RAID5 volume, that impossible (except the
Windows7/Vista/2008, that is mentioned above).
• It is not available to shrink dynamic volume through the Windows
built-in disk manager under the Windows XP/2000/2003. For simple volumes,
it can be resized only by using the way of spanned volume when it is too
low disk space or we want to increase more free space.
Over saw the introduction above, you got clear about that
Windows7/Vista/2008 provided the better disk management services to users
than its previous QS XP/2000/2003. You still could extend, shrink and
resize dynamic volume on hard drives without the help of third-party
partition software.






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