Extending a partition with unallocated space...

[Guest newsqlman]

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]

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,

[Guest subin leo]

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