Extending a partition with unallocated space...

[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,

 

[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,

 

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