MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

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Lesson 1 Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes
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You extend simple volumes by using Disk Management or the Diskpart command-line
utility. Perform extensions of simple volumes with Diskpart the same way that you perform
extensions of basic volumes.
To extend a simple volume using Disk Management, follow these steps:
1. In Disk Management, right-click the simple volume that you want to extend, and
then click Extend Volume.
2. On the Extend Volume Wizard welcome page, click Next.
3. On the Select Disks page, select the disk(s) that contain free space that you want
to attach to this volume, enter the amount of space for each disk, and then click
Next.
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.
Figure 10-11 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 consider
the following issues that are associated with moving disks: