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By: szaka
Ntfsresize works fine with
NTFS dynamic disks too and it depends only on the partitioner if you can
shrink and enlarge NTFS dynamic disk or not. Both the filesystem and the
"partition" must be resized and ntfsresize does only the fileystem
resizing part.
Ntfsresize doesn't read thus analyze and modify partition tables and
storage layout definitions. It only cares about NTFS, nothing else. Hence
it can't detect the dynamic disks. It also doesn't make any sense because
that's a different, upper layer. Ntfsresize itself doesn't have problem
with dynamic disks and it works fine.
What could you do? This is what people reported to work.
1) get rid of any type of RAID (mirror, strip, etc), if you have
2) reboot
3) convert dynamic disk to basic disk
4) reboot
5) ntfsresize
6) reboot
7) fdisk
8) reboot
9) convert basic disk to dynamic disk
10) reboot
11) add original RAID features, if you had
12) reboot
The step 3) is a bit tricky because it's believed it's not possible at
all. Well, several people wrote that just changing
the partition ID 42 to ID 7 in the partition table made the trick. However you
must make sure the relevant
partition the full NTFS filesystem.
The above process is error-prone, easy to make a mistake so I suggest that
make a full backup, just in case something would go wrong.
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