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Windows dynamic disk is more advanced in efficiency than basic disk. Eg: panning volume into mirrored volume and multiple disks. A disk management own Windows 2003 permits users to convert basic disk to dynamic disk. On the dynamic disk users maximize the HD performance under Server 2003, create simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID5 volume.

Unlikely, you may not operation through on dynamic disks by Windows 2003 disk management, such as extend system volume or boot volume size. Result that dynamic system can not be extent it can only did by dynamic converter software. To extend dynamic system volume without losing any data on Windows Server 2003, first you should turn to Dynamic Disk Converter, second extend the system volume on the basic disk by a safe software like Partition Assistant, last convert the basic disk to dynamic if necessary.

Convert to basic disk via Dynamic Disk Converter                               

1. Take a free version from the link: http://www.dynamic-disk.com/download.html
2. Run the Dynamic Disk Converter to convert dynamic disk to basic disk.
3. All dynamic disks will be listed in the following list box, choose the disk which you want to convert.
4. Then the converter tells you to confirm conversion. The whole conversion finishes in minutes.

Extend dynamic system volume after converting via Partition Assistant Server Edition

As the best partition manager software Partition Assistant is specially designed for Windows Server 2003. It is adept in resize and move partition, extend partition, repartition, merge, Split partition, etc.You can process advanced partition operations without data loss, including Extend System Disk. Use the partition manager assistant to extend dynamic system volume after converting.

1. Download the partition software from http://www.extend-partition.com/download.html
2. You will see the hard drive information of your working station computer, like disk model, partition file system, capacity etc, as enter into the main function interface.
3. Click the system volume necessary, and then do follow the clew operation.

Here you are clear to extend dynamic system volume with the both software Dynamic Disk Converter and Partition Assistant. Selecting the advanced software is a wise move.