CREATE AN ADDITIONAL SHARE NAME FOR A FOLDER

4. On the Completion page, click Finish to extend the volume.

Figure 10-11 shows the Select Disks page on a single-drive system. In this case, the

maximum available space on the selected disk that you can use to extend the volume

is 2048 MB.

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Extend a simple dynamic volume in Disk Management.

You are not prompted for any information concerning drive lettering or formatting

because the added space assumes the same properties as the existing volume.

Moving Disks to Another Computer

If a computer fails but the hard disks are still functional, you can install the disks into

another computer to ensure that the data is still accessible. However, you need to con-

sider the following issues that are associated with moving disks:

You cannot move dynamic disks to computers running Windows 95, Windows 98,

Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, or Win-

dows XP Home Edition because these operating systems do not support dynamic

disks. To move a disk to these operating systems, you must first convert it to a

basic disk.

When moving spanned or striped volumes, move all disks that are associated with

the volume at the same time. If one disk is missing from a spanned or striped vol-

ume, none of the data on the entire volume is accessible.

Windows XP Professional does not support volume sets or stripe sets that were

created in Windows NT 4.0. You must back up the data, delete the volumes, install

the disks into the Windows XP Professional computer, create new volumes, and

then restore the data. Alternatively, you can install the disks into a computer run-

ning Windows 2000 (which does support Windows NT volume and stripe sets),

convert the disks to dynamic disks (which converts volume sets to spanned vol-

umes and stripe sets to striped volumes), and then install the disks into a computer

running Windows XP Professional.

After moving disks, the disks appear in Disk Management on the new computer. Basic

disks are immediately accessible. Dynamic disks initially appear as foreign disks and

need to be imported before you can access them.

How to Import Foreign Disks

All dynamic disks on a computer running Windows XP Professional are members of

the same disk group. Each disk in the group contains the dynamic disk database for the

entire group stored in the 1 MB reserved disk area at the end of the disk. When you

move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, Windows displays it as a foreign

disk because it does not belong to the local disk group. You must import foreign disks,

which merge the disk’s information into the dynamic disk database on the new com-

puter and place a copy of the database on the newly installed disk.

To import a foreign disk, follow these steps: