How to Extend Dynamic Disk in Windows 10 without Loss Data
About Dynamic Disk
As you know, dynamic disk and basic disk are two different disk types. Thereinto, basic disk is widely used in a few years. In Windows 2000, dynamic disk is introduced by Microsoft cooperation. You can create the simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID 5 volume on the dynamic disk. Compared to the basic disk, dynamic disks has some advantages whereas basic disks don’t have.
1. There is no limitation in partition number. That is to say, you can create many dynamic volumes so long as there is enough disk space on hard drive.
2. In basic disk, the partition is unable to span two disks, whereas it is allowed in dynamic disks.
3. Dynamic disks provide fault tolerance feature.
Consequently, due to so many merits of dynamic disks, nowadays more and more users choose dynamic disks for data storage.
It Is Necessary to Resize Dynamic Disk
It is similar to basic disks, there is still low disk space problem on dynamic disks. In Windows 10, for a period of time, there may be a large amount of data saved in your dynamic volumes. And the Windows warns you that you are running out of disk space on system (driver number) and it advices you to free some space on the drive by deleting old files or unnecessary files. However, this way can’t solve this issue fundamentally. In this case, it is necessary to resize dynamic volume size for more disk space. But how to achieve this aim? Is there any simple way? Generally, there are two ways for this task.
How to Extend Dynamic Disk in Windows 10
Run Disk Management to Resize Dynamic Volume
As you know, there is a built-in utility — Disk Management, which is used for partition and disk management. This tool is available to resize basic disk and dynamic disk partition, such as extend volume, shrink volume. However, it is only used to resize simple volume and spanned volume. When you right click a stripped volume, from the following screenshot, you can’t find “Extend Volume” and “Shrink Volume” features.
Therefore, if you want to resize the stripped volume, mirrored volume or RAID 5 volume, it is impossible to use Disk Management. Fortunately, there is a third-party dynamic disk manager can help you.
Use MiniTool Partition Wizard to Resize Dynamic Disk
MiniTool Partition Wizard is an excellent and reliable partition and disk management software for basic disks and dynamic disks. With the assistance of this tool, you can move/resize/shrink/extend partition effectively. And there is no limitation in resizing dynamic volume, in other words, you can extend or shrink simple volume, spanned volume, stripped volume, mirrored volume and RAID 5 volume.
Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard and go to the main interface. Right click the target volume and select “Move/Resize Volume” or click this feature in “Operations” menu.
Step 2: Then you can move the handle towards the right side to occupy the unallocated space.
Note: If there is no unallocated space, you need to resize volume to free some disk space and then start to extend dynamic disk.
Step 3: Then you can preview the target volume will be extended. Finally, please click “Apply”.
It is very easy to solve “how to extend dynamic disk in Windows 10” issue with MiniTool Partition Wizard. Don’t hesitate, just try this dynamic disk tool to manage your volumes.
Note: MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition can’t support dynamic disk management. Please buy its Professional Edition or a more advanced edition.