- Mar 31, 2020
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Okay here it is. I started off partitioning my 2tb hard drive to use the second partition to backup some of my data so i can format the hard drive without losing my personal data.
View: https://imgur.com/sXlazp0
I do not have an extra backup drive. i have a 1tb ssd which has about 400 gb free, my 2 tb was actually 800 out of 1.8 tb free. So i shrunk the partition to a 700 gb and 1100 gb one. then moved about 450 gb of stuff from the 1100 gb partition to the 700. I then tried to shrink the 1100 gb partition and it said only 250gb were unallocated. But that would have been enough to finish moving the files i wanted to backup.
I went for it, and had the 250 gb unallocated partition. So I tried to extend the 700 gb one and it wanted to make it a dynamic disk. The only purpose this drive will be for is storage so I did not care. But I guess since it was both extending the partition and converting it to a dynamic disk it instead made two separate drive I's as seen.
I dislike it for my ocd mainly. But after trying to research about dynamic disks nothing gives me what answer i need straight up. I only have new volume i, main drive d and local c in my computer. If i transfer 350gb more of files into new volume I (which would fill more than either partition at this point) will that corrupt or harm the files? Being seperated on partitions. I seen something about raid format doing something like that but that was tieing the partitions from multiple drives together in the process. I am afraid if I format the 250 gb new volume i it would actually format both since it highlights both and doesnt really explain anything.
View: https://imgur.com/sXlazp0
I do not have an extra backup drive. i have a 1tb ssd which has about 400 gb free, my 2 tb was actually 800 out of 1.8 tb free. So i shrunk the partition to a 700 gb and 1100 gb one. then moved about 450 gb of stuff from the 1100 gb partition to the 700. I then tried to shrink the 1100 gb partition and it said only 250gb were unallocated. But that would have been enough to finish moving the files i wanted to backup.
I went for it, and had the 250 gb unallocated partition. So I tried to extend the 700 gb one and it wanted to make it a dynamic disk. The only purpose this drive will be for is storage so I did not care. But I guess since it was both extending the partition and converting it to a dynamic disk it instead made two separate drive I's as seen.
I dislike it for my ocd mainly. But after trying to research about dynamic disks nothing gives me what answer i need straight up. I only have new volume i, main drive d and local c in my computer. If i transfer 350gb more of files into new volume I (which would fill more than either partition at this point) will that corrupt or harm the files? Being seperated on partitions. I seen something about raid format doing something like that but that was tieing the partitions from multiple drives together in the process. I am afraid if I format the 250 gb new volume i it would actually format both since it highlights both and doesnt really explain anything.
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