• Windows Server,  Windows XP

    Windows Server 2008: Expanding a Volume

    You may find that a disk in Windows Server simply isn’t big enough for your greedy applications.  But never fear, the good folks at Microsoft have given us the ability to expand that volume on the fly, as needed by adding other pools of storage or single disks to it.  However, it’s important to keep in mind that if you have a highly available volume (let’s just say a RAID6) and you add a single disk to it then you have just effectively lost the high availability for the data stored on the extended portion of the volume.  So make sure that the new storage you are adding matches up…