Ok when I originally installed windows 2000 on a machine, I was only allowed to create a partition of a certain size that left 8 megs left over. At the time I didn't think this was a big deal. Today I upgraded the basic disk to a dynamic disk. Now I know once in windows 2000 you can initially make a secondary drive a dynamic disk and let it consume the whole drive.
My problem is that I want to do a simple mirror from one of my drives to my second. I already upgraded my first drive to dynamic and it has the 8megs of unallocated space. I found out later that you can only mirror a drive that is a single partition. This screws me because of the 8MBs of wasted space. I tried to use partition magic to resize the dynamic disk but it won't run on dynamic disks. Since the drive was originally a basic disk I can't use the Disk Management built into Windows 2000 to resize the disk.
Does anyone know of a problem that will resize the dynamic partition to consume the entire drive so I can setup a mirror?
Thanks,
Jim
My problem is that I want to do a simple mirror from one of my drives to my second. I already upgraded my first drive to dynamic and it has the 8megs of unallocated space. I found out later that you can only mirror a drive that is a single partition. This screws me because of the 8MBs of wasted space. I tried to use partition magic to resize the dynamic disk but it won't run on dynamic disks. Since the drive was originally a basic disk I can't use the Disk Management built into Windows 2000 to resize the disk.
Does anyone know of a problem that will resize the dynamic partition to consume the entire drive so I can setup a mirror?
Thanks,
Jim
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