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Figure 99. Upgrade to dynamic disk
The upgrade will convert normal, primary, or logical partitions into simple
volumes, volume sets into spanned volumes, stripe sets into stripped volumes,
mirrors into mirrored volumes, and stripe sets with parity into RAID-5 volumes. If
you upgrade a basic disk containing any stripe sets, volume sets, or mirrors
spanning multiple disks, you must upgrade all disks involved at once.
Keep in mind that reverting a dynamic disk to a basic disk can only be done after
deleting all volumes (and thus data) on it.
Additional notes:
• Basic disks with a sector size greater than 512 bytes cannot be upgraded.
• Upgrading disks containing the boot partition or system partition will require a
reboot. Other disks will be converted immediately, except if the disk cannot be
force dismounted (for example, because of an active paging file).
6.5.3 Creating partitions or volumes
1. Open the Disk Manager:
Right-click this area, not the
visual representation of the
disk.
Although you can convert the disks containing the boot and system partitions
to dynamic disks, you should not convert them if you installed the operating
system using ServerGuide. The 50 MB FAT system partition created by
ServerGuide must remain as a basic disk. Upgrading the disk containing the
Netfinity system partition will:
• Make the system partition inaccessible when pressing Alt+F1 at boot time
• Result in a 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE blue screen error
when booting Windows 2000
ServerGuide users
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