Guest newsqlman Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 Hello, I can't remember how the heck I did this with a new drive last spring. I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a raid 5 configuration. I added a new drive to the raid 5 and ran Dell's reconfiguration so now it shows up under Disk Management as 70GB of unallocated space. I have a few partitions the C drive which is my OS partition and then a D drive which is my data partition and the one I want to extend. When I run the diskpart command it shows Disk 0 with 500GB and 70GB free. When I select that Disk and run show partitions it lists the following: Partition 1 OEM Partition 2 Primary 12gb 78mb Partition 3 Extended 478gb 12gb Partition 4 Logical 478gb 12gb From the size and the offset partition 3 and 4 are the same and that is the area that I want to extend. Can someone lend me a helping answer as I forgot how I did this the first time. Thanks,
Guest Jon Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 Re: Extending a partition with unallocated space... Hi there, Windows uses 3 types of partitions - primary, extended, and logical. Older versions of windows only supported one primary partition but to get around this you could create an extended partition which acts as a container for logical partitions. It's been a while since I have seen it done like this as there is no longer an issue with having several primary partitions anymore, but to enlarge the D drive (logical partition 4) you will first need to enlarge the extended partition (partition 3) Regards Jon On Feb 11, 2:42 pm, newsqlman <ndit...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I can't remember how the heck I did this with a new drive last > spring. I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a raid 5 configuration. > I added a new drive to the raid 5 and ran Dell's reconfiguration so > now it shows up under Disk Management as 70GB of unallocated space. I > have a few partitions the C drive which is my OS partition and then a > D drive which is my data partition and the one I want to extend. When > I run the diskpart command it shows Disk 0 with 500GB and 70GB free. > When I select that Disk and run show partitions it lists the > following: > > Partition 1 OEM > Partition 2 Primary 12gb 78mb > Partition 3 Extended 478gb 12gb > Partition 4 Logical 478gb 12gb > > From the size and the offset partition 3 and 4 are the same and that > is the area that I want to extend. Can someone lend me a helping > answer as I forgot how I did this the first time. > > Thanks,
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