Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual
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1. x JGR 3X Lm y Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Tasks 1 f m 7 Volume Capacity Used space Free space Type Filesystem Status General Operations L Vok b gt Resize Volume b v es Shrink Volume ec 30 00GB 23 37GB 6 63GB Simple NTFS Healthy Boot S Delete S D New Volume 41 09GB 91 04MB 41 00GB Simple NTFS Healthy w S E New Volume 878 91GB 11722MB 878 79GB Simple NTFS Healthy K Format Volume sve Voki 43 Move Sice Y Ne Q 200GB 48 60MB 195GB Primary NTFS Healthy Active System X Change Label 9 Change Letter L lt i UR amp m Dynamic Disks So Dynamic MER 1 9 C D New V los zz Wizards 950 00GB Unal 30 00GE 41 09GB gt Resize Volume ce d ES Shrink Volume eate Volume Wizar H s Fi pu Basic Disks WX Delete Volume e Cska Format Volume 9 Remove Drive from RAID BasicMBR Q 3 950 00GB 2 00 948 00GB Unallocated Move Slice K Move Volume Slice Wizard nge Letter Change L Change Label Go Properties Esme Primary BBlogical unallocated Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Step2 In the pop up window drag the sliders of both sides to shrink volume In addition we can also specify the new size of the volume by typing After that click OK www dynamic disk com support aomeitech com 20 Aomei Dy2. Concept of Dynamic Disk Dynamic Disk Every physical or virtual disk could be converted to dynamic disk from basic disk under the Windows built in Disk Management and dynamic disk records the data information by using LDM data pool As same as basic disk dynamic disk also support GPT and MBR two types of partition style too Dynamic Disk Manager could also support both partition styles Dynamic Disk Group Dynamic disk group is built up with every dynamic disk and one Windows OS could only support one dynamic disk group If one dynamic disk doesn t belong to the recognizable disk group it would be showen as foreign disk and could not be operated In DDM this kind of dynamic disk will be shown as failed disk To solve this problem we could use the built in Disk Management to import this disk to the recognizable disk group so that we could handle it Volume Slice Volume slice is a part of a dynamic volume a dynamic volume could be subdivided into multiple volume slices According to the types of dynamic volumes the volume 4 slice could be anywhere on each dynamic disk Cluster Size Cluster size is the smallest storage unit in Microsoft OS DOS Windows The larger cluster size is the more disk space will be wasted the smaller cluster size is the more file fragment will be generated therefore in order to avoid this we always set the cluster size as the default the cluster size of NTFS file system is default a
3. then follow the prompting to complete the updating Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Interface of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Dynamic Disk Manager main window consists of menu bar toolbar disk panel sidebar and partition list The main interface includes the number of disks partition info like drive letter label file system status and free space which indicates the related information of the selected disk partition with a specific image You could press F5 or click Refresh button on tool bar to refresh the main interface Below is the screenshot of main interface of DDM amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager t ioj xi Actions Operations Wizards View Help 4 aog Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View e re Volume Capacity Free space Type File system General Operations Dynamic Volume Resize Volume Y V shrink Volume Nie E 61 37GB 61 31GB Simple NTFS t r 104 19GB 104 12 XX Delete Volume 7 Se G 78 47GB Resize Volume Format volume Ni H 17 026B 6 Shrink volume ls trored RAID1 NTFS Z Move Slice Nie I 38 34GB MIDS NTFS Delete volume os Change Label Xf Format Volume esa Dynamic Disks zi gt Change Letter 5 Soo a snee __ i Wo Volume Properties Dynamic MERE 9 Change Letter 200 00GB 61 37GB Simple e GBR X Change Label Wizards Ress mmm m mi pinks ME m pM e
4. Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager User M anual ndex Related Info of Dynamic Disk Management eese nennen nnne 2 About Dynamic Disk etr dente Pe repete d repe e D rn dep era 2 About Dynamic Volume 3 Ree Ree eR eue e Re RR UR HR Re Rein 2 Conc pt of Dynamic Disk inei deterret ee mereri 4 About Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager esessseseeseeseeeeeeeneeeeeee nennen eere tren enne tnennenns 5 Agomer DDM Rates t e eerte a ee YR CESARE DURER WR ee ee ea 5 DDM Hardware Requirements ent e ete ete entiendes 6 Installation and Upgrade iseer rtt eet Pre RC REIR Re Hera 6 Interface of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager eese 7 Operating Process of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager essere 7 Using Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager aranea nin na a a EA nenne trenn ener nnne 8 Create VOUES serieren riene eein eeaeee iee Eeee Eer Diei NER DAE Eeri e E ERE EHE YER Ene o dents 8 Pelee VONE e a e a E E cate ee REIR HERE 9 Format Volume nsss menee ar E ORAL ROA AA AniS E AEEA ARAE A 10 Resize and Move VODE eu o REPRE IE RC REIP RE ins 10 Move SII CO i eret re o DN res NUN EGENT SNR ARN gh GTR PCR ea POR LEN 13 Change Label 2i ee d i A RAE Rr eo RE aE aae 13 Change Letter ao n pesos ate rerba geriet d e getto re gae peti da ee rrt shaun ees 13 Operation Wizatd 5 o rete SIR oe Pee mala ihe Pee e n e e 14 Create Volume Wizard eiie eie eire ere id ers 14 Add Drive to RAID zit eee e et eer eee ber e dee and
5. The dynamic disk consists of both simple volumes and mirrored volumes and moreover the number of each simple volume slice or mirrored volume slice is one 2 Situations in which you CANNOT convert dynamic disk to basic There are spanned volumes striped volumes or RAIDS5 volumes on dynamic disks The number of simple volume slice on a single dynamic disk is more than one namely discontiguous simple volume The number of mirrored volume slice on a single dynamic disk is more than one namely discontiguous mirrored volume 3 Advice For spanned volumes and discontiguous simple volumes please use Resize Move Volume to shrink volume or change volume location so that turn them into contiguous simple volume single volume slice For mirrored volume please use Shrink Volume to decrease its capacity so that it becomes contiguous mirrored volume Besides we suggest you break mirrored volume before converting For striped and RAIDS volume please use Remove Drive from RAID to remove the dynamic disk you want to convert from the RAID array For striped mirrored and RAIDS volume you can also use Move Volume Slice Wizard to migrate all the volume slices 31 2 Can convert partitioned GPT disk to M BR with Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager can convert GPT disk which has 4 partitions at most to MBR without losing data If the number of partitions on GPT disk is more than 4 the conversion from GPT
6. 948 00GB Unallocated Simple erimary eoo unallocated Unallocated Space behind Simple Volume D www dynamic disk com 21 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Step3 Right click simple volume D and select Move Slice In the pop up window position mouse pointer on D drive and drag it rightwards After clicking OK the unallocated space will locate behind system volume amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Unlimited Edition 5 Jen js Actions Operations Wizards View Help N 9o 0 s5 1 Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending Operations 1 mmm Volume 35 Quickly Move Slice Ea General Operations L 2 Z Resize Volume m T olume slice in this unallocate S Shrink Volume Sc 3 Se D New Volu E NX Delete Volume See E New Volui X Format Volume Unallocated Move Slice Basic Volume Y N Change Label vo lv Active Sustem 9 change Letter M eee oe Volume Properties Dynamic s Disk2 Dynamic MBR 4 Wizards 950 00GB Preview Disk hg Create Volume Wizard eos Basic Disks LER 15 G D Nev zma NANI Jie Add Drive to RAID 00GB Unal 30 00 41 09 Unallocat 500 25GB Sim be Ses vista eee 39 Remove Drive from RAID Basic MBR 950 0068 X9 Move Volume Slice Wizard simpe Gerimary Logical unallocated Move Slice D Step4 Right clic
7. 15 GB Online Healthy Unallocated 4 gt ll Unallocated ll Simple volume fl Spanned volume fll Striped volume 4 Disk Management The Problem How to extend system volume C drive without the need to shrink volume E The Solution Although there is no unallocated space on Disk 0 we can use M ove Volume Slice Wizard to transfer E volume to Disk 2 where has 216 15GB unallocated space After that there will be 12 01GB contiguous unallocated space behind C drive In such case we can use Resize M ove Volume to extend system volume C drive Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Click Move Volume Slice Wizard in the left www dynamic disk com 28 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Wizard pane An information window will pop up explaining what volume slice is and why use this wizard Then click Next amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Unlimited Edition lel xi Actions Operations Wizards View Help Y Y amp Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh V cxx volume General Operations a Move Volume Slice Wizard Move Volume Slice You can move volume slices From one place to another ez NES Dynamic Volu What is Volume Slice i 7 Resize Volume Volume Slice is a portion of dynamic volume a dynamic volume can contain multiple volume slices and they may et be scattered in each disk e g RAIDS with
8. Drive from RAID 28 00GB 5 86GB Simple ls 10 13GB Striped RAIDO K Move Volume Slice Wizard Vbis 7 Dynamic MBR F G 950 00GB 10 13 939 87GB Spanned Dynamic MBR G E 204 14GB 250 00GB 33 846BSpanned 12 01GB 5 Unallocated Sx Dynamic MBR 160 00GB 160 00GB Unallocated simpe WD 5triped WBspanned unallocated Contiguous Unallocated Space behind C Drive Then right click system volume C drive and select Resize Move Volume In the pop up window drag the right slider rightwards to merge unallocated space into system volume Last but not the least do remember to click C ommit on the toolbar to perform pending operations www dynamic disk com 30 support aomeitech com Technical Support If you have any problems with Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager please read FAQ or feel free to contact Aomei Support Team Emails will be replied as soon as possible Website http www dynamic disk com Email support aomeitech com sales aomeitech com FAQ 1 In what situations can dynamic disk be converted to basic with Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager 1 Situations in which you CAN convert dynamic disk to basic The dynamic disk consists of only simple volumes and moreover the number of each simple volume slice is one The dynamic disk consists of only mirrored volumes and moreover the number of each mirrored volume slice is one
9. JOU eee eR e de eR 14 Remove Drive fromm RAITD onion eere E i eene ak een Ce Rh ee TUER ee Ee ea eee Ene 15 Move Volume Slice Wizard esses enne nne nen eterne enne 15 Disk Operati OM MC set E E N cubevetdses E A 16 Initialize Disk to MBR or GPT aroi roate Sa EAS AAEE ET A TE in 16 Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk esee renes 16 Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk esses 17 Convert to MBR Disk occorre ee eme ree EUNT EO E EO EP Pe Pe EO Pee d 17 Convert to GET DISK 6s an e er eR chad dan ee Gs ERROR I FUR HON edle ees 18 Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Case Study esee 19 Case 1 Resize Volume Shrink Move Extend Volume eese 19 Case 2 Extend RAID Volume aroia aeie mene eoe eee ce Cete o eco eae o ente 23 Case 3 Use Move Volume Slice Wizard sese nennen 28 Technical Support 5 23 Petron nan arte Pr i se ete E ra erepta EEs 31 FAQ M 31 Related Info of Dynamic Disk M anagement About Dynamic Disk The dynamic disk was first introduced in Windows 2000 and Microsoft added the dynamic disk management into the built in Disk Management Compared with basic disk a dynamic disk can store one or more volumes and one volume could also occupy more than one disk So that dynamic disks are more effective if your machine has more than one hard disk drive Highlights of Dyn
10. disk to MBR is unavailable Because disk based on MBR can only create up to 4 primary partitions 3 After converting a dynamic disk contained mirrored volume to basic why Windows Disk M anagement snap in shows a Missing Disk Because the mirrored volume consists of two dynamic disks if you only convert one of them to basic the Missing Disk will appear however Missing Disk will disappear naturally when you simultaneously convert two dynamic disks to basic We suggest you break mirrored volume before converting 4 How to extend RAIDO Striped RAID1 Mirrored and RAID5 volume with Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager For RAIDI Mirrored volume that consists of only two dynamic disks it is easy and safe to extend RAIDI Mirrored volume with Resize Move Volume if the two dynamic disks are equal in size if not such as 100GB disk1 and 300GB disk2 in such case you can only extend RAIDI Mirrored volume to maximum 100GB Then in order to extend up to 300GB you need to add another 300GB disk hereinafter disk3 to your system and convert disk3 to dynamic disk After that please use Move Volume Slice Wizard to transfer all mirrored volume slices on disk1 to disk3 and then extend RAIDI Mirrored volume to 300GB with Resize Move Volume Besides this method also applies to RAIDO Striped and RAIDS volume For RAIDO Striped and RAIDS volume it is easy and safe to extend RAIDO Striped or RAIDS5 volume with Resize Mov
11. 4 System Tools Simple Dynamic NTFS Healthy Boot Page File Crash Dump 30 00GB 6 63 GB nx No Task Scheduler cs Q Simple Basic NTFS Healthy System Active Primary Partition 200GB 195GB 9 No i Event Viewer sNew Volume D Simple Dynamic NTFS Healthy 4109GB 4100GB 1009 No Gi Shared Folders New Volume E Simple Dynamic NTFS Healthy 87891 GB 87879 GB 100 No Local Users and Groups Performance By Device Manager 4 amp Storage t Disk Management Eis Services and Applications 4 m D 4 C3Disk 1 SS ES Dynamic C3 New Volume D New Volume E 950 00 GB 30 00 GB NTFS 41 09 GB NTFS 878 91 GB NTFS Online Healthy Boot Page File Crash Du Healthy Healthy amp sCD ROM 0 CD ROM X No Media z 4 m v IE Unallocated I Primary partition l Simple volume Figure 4 T he Problem How to extend system volume C drive The Solution Shrink simple volume E to generate some unallocated space and move slice to make the unallocated locate behind system volume Then we can extend system volume C drive to contiguous unallocated space In order to solve the problem we need to combine the above three learned functions into the solution including Shrink Volume M ove Slice and R esize M ove Volume 19 Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Right click simple volume E and select Shrink Volume Actions Wizards View Help
12. 50 006 K Move Volume Slice Wizard ACA Dis Dynamic 250 00 Dynamic Mi 148 08GB 160 0066 11 91GB RAID Unallocated Bsimple BBstriped Mrans unallocated Remove Drive from RAID Step5 Select RAID volume Here choose RAID 5 volume F you want to remove drive from and click Next Then specify drive Select the existing disk here choose Disk 1 you want to remove from the RAID array and click Finish www dynamic disk com 26 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual amp Remove Drive From RAID Shrink RAID Volume Specify Drive the drive that you want to remove From the RAID volume Capacity Disk 1 j VMware VMware Virtual S O Disk 2 950 00GB vMware VMware Virtual S O Disk 3 250 00GB VMware VMware Virtual S O Disk 4 160 00GB VMware VMware Virtual S Click the Finish button to return Main Window ET WIN IN Specify Drive After completing the above 5 steps RAIDS volume slice originally located on Disk 1 have been replaced with Disk 4 Then we can extend RAIDS volume with Resize M ove Volume Step6 Right click RAID5 volume and select Resize M ove Volume In the pop up window drag the right slider rightwards to extend RAID5 volume Then click OK amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Unlimited Edition ioj x Actions Operations Wizards View Help S ANNE 7 MES RES UBI E Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending
13. Create Volume Wizard Dynamic MBR F 200 00GB 27 92GB Sp o 16GB St t 02GB is 17GB A 17GB Si f 45GB a 12GB Spanned x Add Drive to RAID S39 Remove Drive from RAID Disks t e L Li L X9 Move Volume Slice Wizard Dynamic MBR I K 400 0066 19 17C 174 43GB Spanned mi 45 s 75GB Simple E OSGB Sir d 16GE ED simple WBspanned striped lfirosd EBRrams GpPrimary Logical Main Interface of Dynamic Disk Manager Operating Process of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Display operation results Results of any disk partition operation are immediately displayed in the Dynamic Disk Manager main window If you create a volume it will be immediately shown in the disk partition list as well as in graphical disk panel on the top of the main windows Any volume changes including resizing moving and labeling are also immediately displayed in the main window View C ommit Pending O perations u All operations are pending until the user issues the command for the changes to be made permanent Until then Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager will only show the results that are provided by operations Therefore you can preview the latest changes and then decide whether perform or cancel specific operations www dynamic disk com 7 support aomeitech com u All pending operations are added to a pending operations list You can view it in the Pending Operations List by clicking View button on the tool bar Aomei Dyn
14. Extend RAID Yolume z Dynami BEEF TETTE O Jesse Welcome to use the wizard to extend RAID volume S shrink volume Sc Healthy Boot System m NX Delete Volume You can use the wizard to add drive to software RAID and it can handle striped volume NF RAIDO and RAID 5 volume The capacity of the volume will be extended or increased when a x Format volume 4 drive is added to the volume Zs KII Move Slice Dynarr Nf Change Label K Dis Dynamic 9 Change Letter 28 00Gt We Volume Properties N Dis O eur 1 Create Volume Wizard CEN Dis Emeen fope 250 00 39 Remove Drive from RAID IQ Move Volume Slice Wizard ESSE Dynamic MBR 160 00GB 160 00GB Unallocated Bsinple BBstriped rans unallocated Add Drive to RAID Step2 Select RAID volume Here we choose RAIDS volume F and click Next amp Add Drive to RAID Extend RAID Volume Select RAID Yolume Pleas ect a RAID volume that you want to extend Capacity RAID Volume Ne E 30 67GB Striped RAIDO Click the Next button to continue Select RAID Volume Step3 Specify drive Select the available disk here choose Disk 4 you want to add to the RAID array and click Finish www dynamic disk com 25 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual amp Add Drive to RAID Exten
15. GB Unallocated Space After volume 46 38GB lt Back ji Einish I Cancel Create volume When you complete specifying all the information click Finish and then you could see the new volume is on the main interface Step4 Click Commit to perform the operation Delete Volume When the volume is useless you could delete it to release more unallocated space for other volumes use to maximize the use of space Note www dynamic disk com 9 support aomeitech com 1 All of the data on the volume will be deleted when you delete a volume therefore we highly recommend backing up all the important data when you want to delete one volume 2 All of the volume slice will be deleted if you delete one volume Delete Volume Step by Step Stepl Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Right click the volume you want to delete and select Delete Volume Step2 Click Ok in the pop up window When you delete one volume it will be showed as unallocated space Step3 Click Commit on the toolbar to perform the operation Format Volume The volume will be formatted automatically when it is created When there are a lot of data and you don t want to delete this volume format volume is a better choice The volume will be change to a fresh volume after formatting Format volume could also help you change the file system the cluster size usually it is default as 4KB and we do
16. Operations 2 Resize Yolume 7 Volume Ce General Operations e ae Resize volume Dynamic Volume Change size of dynamic volume Extend and Shrink volume Shrink volume ec Sf Ne E 30 e e 5 OFL E Format volume I 23 83 423 Move Slice Dynamic Disks M okt a S Change Label Dynamic MER C Unallocated Space Before Volume oke ES 9 Change Letter 28 00GB 5 86GB Simple Volume Size 23 8368 zd Na Volume Properties Unallocated Space After Volume 296 17GB iS Xcedisk2 i Dynamic MBR E Wizards TEES 10 22 Preview Disk geo ss E gy Create Volume Wizard SSS e oq Disk3 o Dynamic MBR ow Add Drive to RAID Dynamic MBR E 950 00GB 10 2 250 00GB 10 22GB 11 91GBR 039 Remove Drive from RAID 3Disk3 f zi E 9 Move volume Slice Wizard Sa Dis ial Dynamic MBR 160 0066 ED simpe E 5triped Erans unallocated Extend RAIDS Volume At last click Commit on the toolbar to perform pending operations After rebooting you will find the disks belonged to RAIDS array have been replaced and entire RAIDS volume has been www dynamic disk com 27 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual enlarged Note It will take more time to perform the operation of Add Drive to RAID The length of time depends o
17. S 11 91 GB NTFS 927 86 GB Online Healthy Healthy f Unallocated amp 9Disk 2 Dynamic E F 249 99 GB 10 22 GB NTFS 11 91 GB NTFS 227 86 GB Online Healthy Healthy Unallocated Disk 3 Dynamic 160 00 GB 160 00 GB Online Unallocated li Unallocated fll Simple volume fl Striped volume RAID 5 volume Disk Management The Problem How to extend RAIDS Volume F drive The Solution Because the Disk 0 is very small and hasn t unallocated space so it is unable to extend RAIDS volume F or RAIDO volume E with Resize M ove Volume function However we can use Add Drive to RAID and Remove Drive from RAID to replace RAIDS or RAID 0 volume on Disk 0 with Disk 3 Then extend RAID volume with Resize M ove Volume function In order to solve the problem we need to combine three above learned functions into the solution including Add Drive to RAID Remove Drive from RAID and Resize M ove Volume Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Click Add Drive to RAID in the left Wizard pane An information window will pop up stating that what the wizard can do Then click Next www dynamic disk com support aomeitech com 24 Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Actions Operations Wizards View Help f iN e Ss A Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Tasks a X X 3 volume General Operations a File system Status Add Drive to RAID
18. allocated space on the dynamic disk which contains the system volume If not you could shrink or delete other volume or move volume to another disk to generate unallocated space 2 You can not extend system volume by using the unallocated space which is from other dynamic disk 3 The unallocated space must be continuous and beside the system partition If the unallocated space is not beside the system volume you could use Move Slice or Resize M ove volume to move the unallocated space Resize System Volume Steps Stepl Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the volume which you want to resize and select R esize M ove volume Step2 In the pop up window drag the handle on both side of the volume rightwards or leftwards to resize the volume Please refer to the screenshot as below Resize System Volume Change volume size Extend Shrink h Resize Volume Qct1 3 96GB NTFS Simple Unallocated Space Before Volume OKB Ss N GEZE Volume Size 3 96GB T Unallocated Space After Volume 1 90GB S Ba tn ee Oe Preview Disk Vos NMKMN p m Dynamic MBR C 1 1 90GB D New Volume 20 00GB 3 96GB Simple Unallocatec 14 13GB Simple Note We suggest you backup your important data before resizing the volume www dynamic disk com 11 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Resize System Volume Note If the unallocated spa
19. amic Disk Create a large volume that occupies several disks Add fault tolerance to your system and data by mirroring a volume such as the one with the operating system to another disk If a disk with one of these mirrors fails no data will be lost on such volume u You could create simple volume spanned volume striped volume mirrored volume and RAIDS volume u Simple volume and spanned volume can be expanded to increase their capacity by Windows built in Disk Manager About Dynamic Volume The volumes which stored on dynamic disk are called dynamic volume There are five different types of dynamic volumes Simple volume Spanned Volume Striped volume RAID 0 Mirrored volume RAID 1 and RAID 5 volume As same as partition on basic disk the file system of dynamic volume is also formatted as NTFS or FAT and the NTFS is set as the default Each volume can be assigned a drive letter Dynamic Volume Types and Features Simple volume A simple volume consists of disk space from a single dynamic disk Extend a simple volume to another disk and it becomes a spanned volume Add a mirror to a simple volume and it becomes a mirrored volume Simple volumes are not fault tolerant C c cc Simple volumes do not provide improved disk I O performance Spanned volume U A spanned volume consists of disk space from two or more dynamic disks and all volume slices do not need to be equally sized U Aspanned volume can be extended as
20. amic Disk Manager offer you to click Undo Ctrl Z and Redo Ctrl Y button on the tool bar to select some operation or cancel some operations You could also click Discard to cancel all the operations u To commit pending operations we could click Commit button on the tool bar Then click Proceed in the pop up window to make our operations working on the physics disk When click Proceed there will be two situations Situation One Specific to the operations on non system volume the operation will be completed under the Windows Mode Situation Two Specific to the operation on system boot and the volume which contain page file or other live applications Because of this kind of volume could not be locked the operation will be completed under the Restart Mode Tips If there s any other live application you could click Retry to close all the running applications when the software required for rebooting to complete the operation on the restart mode Using Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Create Volumes You could use Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager to create five kinds of volumes Such as Simple Volume Spanned Volume Striped Volume Raid 0 Mirrored Volume Raid 1 and Raid 5 Different volume need different precondition Simple Volume Only require one unallocated space on single dynamic disk Spanned Volume Require at least two dynamic disks and each disk has one or more unallocated spa
21. at least three slices Mirrored Volume RAID1 with two slices Shrink Volume ec x Ge Why use this wizard Se Move Slice i This wizard will help you move a volume slice or a batch of volume slices from one disk to another disk which Nie F can achieve the flexibility of dynamic volume management After move the slices an unallocated space will be E Change Label 4 generated then you can reasonably use this unallocated disk space to extend system volume or create a new _ lt dynamic volume etc We Volume Properties Dynamic Dis Diskt AERE Dynamic MBR Wizards a 28 006B 1 Create Volume Wizard M Disk2 3 Add Drive to RAID Dynamic MBR 99 Remove Drive from RAID Seed Dynamic MBR Click Next to continue 250 00668 es A Diskd Dynamic MBR 160 00GB 160 0066 Unallocated E simple GBstriped WBspanned unallocated Move Volume Slice Wizard Step2 Select the dynamic volume here s simple volume E you want to move Then specify the volume slices here only has a single simple volume slice you want to move and click Next Mave Volume Slice Wizard Select Slice Specify the volume slices that you want to move Go M Dynamic MBR 28 00GB Current Total Size 12 01GB Help lt Back Mex ji Cancel Select Slice Step3 Select the destination place to hold E volume here choose Disk 3 and click Finish Note The destination disk must have some u
22. ce l Striped Volume Raid 0 Require at least two dynamic disks and each disk has one or more unallocated space l Mirrored Volume Raid 1 Require two dynamic disks only Each disk has one or more unallocated space l Raid 5 Require at least three dynamic disks and each disk has one or more unallocated space Create Volume Step by Step Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click an unallocated space on the interface then select C reate Volume Step2 In the pop up window select the kind of volume you want to create then click Next in the next window select the target disk to contain the new volume and then click Next Step3 In next window you could specify the information of the new volume such as drive letter file system label and cluster size You could also specify the size of the new volume by draging the handle on the both sides or enter the exact number in the blank Note By default the volume size is set to maximum You could refer to the screenshot as below Create Volume Wizard Edit Volume Size Specify the size of the volume being created Configuration Parameters Drive Letter D Y File System NTFS v volume Label Cluster Size Default x Setting Size D Local Volume t 29 89GB NTFS Simple I Maximum 76 27GB Unallocated Space Before Volume OKB 5 Volume Size 29 89
23. ce is not beside the system volume you could move the volume during resizing To learn more details information about resize volume please refer to Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager C ase Study Shrink Volume Step1 In the main interface of DDM right click the volume you want to shrink select Shrink Volume Step2 In the pop up window through drag the handle on the both sides of the volume to shrink it Then click Ok Shrink Yolume Change size of dynamic volume Shrink volume 9 D New Volume 14 13GB NTFS Simple Unallocated Space Before volume OKB Volume Size 14 13GB Unallocated Space After Volume ows Sol __ Dynamic MBR 1 20 00GB B Simple Shrink data volume After click OK you could find an unallocated space in the main interface you could also use M ove Slice to change the unallocated space behind the system volume you want to extend To resize spanned volume striped volume Mirrored volume and Raid 5 please notice the points as below 1 Shrink the spanned volume the unallocated space will be side the first or the last volume slice After shrinking if the volume size is smaller Also the spanned volume may become a simple volume during the shrinking operation 2 To shrink striped volume mirrored volume and Raid 5 volume when we shrink one of them its volume slices will be shrunk at the same time 3 You could exte
24. d RAID TT Specify Drive S the drive that you want to add to the RAID volume Disk 4 160 00GB VMware VMware Virtual S Click the Finish button to return Main Window Specify Drive After completing the above steps you will find a new RAIDS volume slice on Disk 4 Now we can remove the RAIDS volume slice on Disk 1 Step4 Click Remove Drive from RAID in the left Wizard pane An information window will pop up stating that what the wizard can do Then click Next amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Unlimited Edition Actions Operations Wizards View Help 4 ci A Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending Operations 1 nac oe B General Operations 1 Flesystem Status Remove Drive From RAID Shrink RAID Volume 3 Dynami MEE TITTEN E3 Resize Volume Welcome to use the wizard to shrink RAID volume S shrink volume EIN a Move Slice wE You can use the wizard to remove drive from software RAID and it can handle striped volume Nhe F RAIDO and RAID 5 volume The capacity of the volume will be reduced or shrunk when a change Label al drive is removed from the volume Go Volume Properties Dynarr Dis Dynamic Wizards 28 00Gt Kp Create volume Wizard g Se Dis Nw Add Drive to RAID Dynamic Remove Drive from RAID 9
25. e Volume Create Delete Format Volume Move Volume Slice Change Label Change Drive Letter CS EE coc View properties of the volume or dynamic disk Volume Wizard u Create Volume Wizard u Add Drive to RAID u Remove Drive from RAID u Move Volume Slice Wizard Disk Operation u Initialize Disk as MBR or GPT u Convert Basic to Dynamic Disk u Convert Dynamic to Basic Disk u Convert GPT to MBR Disk DDM Hardware Requirements Minimum Requirements 500 MHz x86 or compatible CPU 256 MB RAM Memory Mouse and Keyboard Recommended R equirements 1 GHz x86 or compatible CPU 512 MB RAM Memory Mouse and Keyboard Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager supports all the storage devices which can be recognized by Windows such as IDE SATA SAS SSD SCSI USB external disks Fire wire disk Hardware RAID and so on It is able to support 5TB maximum volume and 256 hard disks with file system FAT FAT32 and NTFS Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager supports different versions of Windows depending on different software editions In general it works on Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 8 and Server 2000 2003 2008 8 Installation and Upgrade Installing Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Run Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Installation File in the pop up window click Next and follow the wizard to complete the installation Updating Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager click Update button on the toolbar or click Help gt Check Update
26. e Volume if there is enough unallocated space on each disk where the RAIDO Striped or RAIDS volume locate if not you have to add another large enough disk to your system and convert it to dynamic disk After that please use Add Drive to RAID to extend RAIDO Striped or RAIDS5 volume For example the current size of RAID5 volume which consists of 3 X 100GB disks is 200GB you can use Add Drive to RAID to extend RAIDS5 volume to 300GB by adding a new 100GB disk to RAIDS array 5 Why need Move Slice function Every dynamic volume consists of many volume slices for example spanned volume has two volume slices at least and RAIDS volume needs three volume slices at least However system volume is so special that it consists of only simple volume which has just one single volume slice In order to extend system volume there must be some contiguous unallocated space before or behind C drive if not you can use Move Slice or Move Volume Slice Wizard to transfer volume slices located before or behind C drive to other places or disks so that there will be contiguous unallocated space to extend system volume 6 After committing pending operations and restarting computer why the drive letter 32 disappeared If the drive letter disappeared please restart computer once again to make drive letter visible Besides you can use Change Letter to reassign a drive letter to the volume 33
27. ick Commit to finish the operation Note 1 You could only add drive to striped RAIDO and RAID 5 volume other dynamic volumes cannot be added 2 The drive you want to add must be as the same size as the volume you want to extend To learn more examples please refer to Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Case Study Remove Drive from RAID With the help of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager you could remove the drive disk from the existing RAIDO and RAIDS Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager click Remove Drive from RAID Click OK in the pop up window Step2 Select the volume that you want to remove Click Next Step3 Select the drive you want to remove Click Finish Note 1 You could only remove the drive from striped RAIDO and RAID 5 volume others cannot be handled 2 The numbers of drive you want to remove could not be less than the minimum requirement of this volume Move Volume Slice Wizard By using Move Volume Slice Wizard of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager it could assist you realize move any volume slice from one dynamic disk to any place Note 1 There must be an unallocated space which is equal to or larger than the volume slice you want to move on the destination place 2 After moving the place of the source volume slice will become as an unallocated space Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager click M ove Volume Slice Wizard on the main interface and cl
28. ick Next in the pop up window Step2 Select the volume that you want to move click Next then select the volume slice which you want to move click Next Step3 Select the destination where you want to move Click Finish Step4 Click C ommit on the tool bar to finish the operation Tips To learn more examples please refer to Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager C ase Study Disk Operation Initialize Disk to MBR or GPT After adding new disks to your system you cannot operate them until you initialize disks Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager could assist you to initialize disk as GPT or MBR disk Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager and right click the disk that shows Uninitialized Then select Initialize Disk Step2 In the pop up window tick the disks you want to initialize and select partition style of the disks MBR or GPT Then click OK Step3 Click Commit to apply the operation Note 1 You could only convert the partition style when the disk is basic disk dynamic disk can not be handled 2 To convert the partition style the target disk must be fresh in other words there s no volume on it Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk Aomei Dynamic Disk Manger could not manage the basic disk but it could enable you to convert basic disk to dynamic Stepl Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the basic disk select Convert to Dynamic Disk Step2 In the pop up wi
29. k system volume C drive and select Resize M ove Volume In the pop up window drag the right slider rightwards to merge unallocated space into system volume refer to Figure 5 www dynamic disk com support aomeitech com 22 Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Actions Operations Wizards View Help ft LS MY ONU ae a Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending Operations 3 J d ong 4 Volume Capacity Used space Free space Type File system Status Z Resize Volume reed Y S Shrink Volume ec 408 66GB 23 37GB 385 29GB Simple NTFS Healthy Boot e Move ke No D New Volume 41 09GB 91 04MB 41 00GB Simple NTFS Healthy ve No E New Volume 500 25GB 11722MB 500 13GB Simple NTFS Healthy Exc NE Change Label ic Vol Ge Volume Properties v CQ 2 00GB 48 60MB 195GB Primary NTFS Healthy Active System Wizards Ps 4 im c r hy Create TER Dynamic Disks See D New V E New Volume EB Remove Drive from RAID 41 09GB 500 25GB Simple Move Volume Slice Wizard rer x Basic Disks Basic MBR Q 950 00GB 2 00 948 00GB Unallocated Mops 7 simple Grrimary BBlogical unallocated Figure 5 Step5 Click Commit on the toolbar to apply all the changes After rebooting we can find the system volume C drive has been extended from 30GB to 408 66GB and the E drive has been shrunk from 878 91GB to 500 25GB At the same time al
30. l data is intact Case 2 Extend RAID Volume Environment Disk 0 20GB Disk 1 950GB Disk 2 249 99GB Disk 3 160GB System Volume C drive 5 86GB on Disk 0 Striped Volume E drive 30 67GB on Disk 0 1 2 RAIDS Volume F drive 23 83 on Disk 0 1 2 There is no available unallocated space on Disk 0 but there is enough unallocated space on Disk 1 and Disk 2 www dynamic disk com 23 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual m Computer Management mi x E File Action view Window Help E e e Amem Axega Computer Management Local volume Layout Type File System Status Capacity Free Space Free Fault Tolerance E System Tools amp J C Simple Dynamic NTFS Healthy System 5 86 GB 3 44 GB 58 No fm Event Viewer E E Striped Dynamic NTFS Healthy 30 67 GB 30 61 GB 99 No RAID 5 Dynamic NTFS Healthy Shared Folders 287 Local Users and Groups A E EE z amp Storage B Removable Storage Disk Defragmenter Disk Management t m Services and Applications Performance Logs and Alert Device Manager uw 23 76 GB 99 Yes amp 9pisk 0 Dynamic C E F 28 00 GB 5 86 GB NTFS 10 22 GB NTFS 11 91 GB NTFS Online Healthy System Healthy Healthy Disk 1 Dynamic E F 950 00 GB 10 22 GB NTF
31. liability u ARAID 5 volume only exists on computers running Windows Server Operating Systems Compare with Three Different Software Raid Array Volume Name Striped Volume Mirrored Volume RAID 5 Volume Tech Name RAIDO RAIDI RAID5 Fault Tolerance Not support Support Support Improving I O Not support Not support Support Performance Disk Requirement At least two disks Only two disks At least three disks Active Volume The whole disk 5096 of whole disk disk number 1 a volume volume single disk volume Volume Name Striped Volume Mirrored Volume RAID 5 Volume Dynamic Volume Types Support Note The table below lists the operating systems that support certain dynamic volume types Simple Spanned Striped Mirrored RAIDS Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Dos and Windows 9X x x x M x Windows 2000 Professional d wv wv M M Windows 2000 Server Advanced wv v wv wv Server Datacenter Server Windows XP Home M M x x x Windows XP Professional v v wv M x Windows 2003 Small Business Server wv A Wv wv Web Standard Enterprise Datacenter Edition Windows Vista x M M M x Home Basic Home Premium Windows Vista v wv wv x x Business Ultimate Enterprise Windows Server 2008 wv vw d wv R2 Datacenter Enterprise Standard Windows 7 x x M M M Home Premium Home Basic Starter Windows 7 Professional Unlimited v wv wv M Enterprise
32. long as unallocated space exists in dynamic disks U Aspanned volume cannot be mirrored U Spanned volumes are not fault tolerant U Spanned volumes do not provide improved disk I O performance Striped volume RAIDO U A striped volume resides on two or more dynamic disks and its data is evenly distributed across equally sized of disk space on each disk U Striped volumes usually provide the ability to access data faster than other types of dynamic volumes Striped volumes cannot be mirrored or extended and are not fault tolerant A striped volume is also known as a RAID 0 volume Mirrored volume RAID1 u A mirrored volume is a fault tolerant volume whose data is duplicated on two dynamic disks u Mirrored volumes provide data redundancy When one of the disks fails the data can still be accessed from the remaining disk Mirrored volumes cannot be extended and do not provide improved disk I O performance A mirrored volume is also known as RAID 1 volume Raid 5 Volume u ARAID 5 volume is a fault tolerant volume Its data and parity are striped across an array of three or more dynamic disks Parity is a calculated value that can be used to reconstruct data after a failure When a dynamic disk fails the portion of the RAID 5 volume that was on that failed disk can be re created from the remaining data and the parity u RAID 5 volumes cannot be mirrored or extended but provide improved disk I O performance and enhanced data re
33. n 4 partitions to basic disk 2 After the conversion all of the volumes will become primary partitions 3 The conversion could only be handled under basic disk If handing dynamic disk you could first convert it to basic Convert to GPT Disk GPT disk can create partitions larger than 2TB The number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes such as container partitions as defined by the MBR GPT disk supports up to 128 partitions per disk Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the MBR disk that you want to convert select Convert to GPT Disk Step2 Click OK in the pop up window Step3 Click C ommit to perform the operation Note only empty disk can be converted to GPT disk by Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager C ase Study Case 1 Resize Volume Shrink Move E xtend Volume Environment Disk size 950GB System Volume C drive 30GB Simple Volume D drive 41 09GB Simple Volume E drive 878 91GB From figure 4 we can find the system volume C drive is almost full only 6 63GB free space remains but the simple volume E is empty In such case we can use Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager to maximize disk space usage X Computer Management ces File Action View Help e9 20B ml AX E s aR Computer Management Local Volume Layout Type File System Status Capacity Free Space Free Fault Toleranc
34. n the used space size of RAID volume In addition the operation of Add drive to RAID5 is essentially RAIDS volume expansion The case aims at explaining we can use Add Drive to RAID and Remove Drive from RAID to replace disks Case 3 Use Move Volume Slice Wizard Environment Disk 0 28GB Disk 1 950GB Disk 2 249 99GB System Volume C drive 5 86GB on Disk 0 Simple Volume E drive 12 01GB on Disk 0 E computer managemen six m File Action View window Help 2481 xl e amn em D X amp c sd volume Layout Type File System status Capacity Free Spa S39 cs Simple posant NTFS Healthy System 5 86 GB 3 43 GB CJ E Simple Dynamic NTFS Healthy 12 01 GB 11 94 GE CJ F Striped Dynamic NTFS Healthy 20 26 GB 20 20 GE 9 G Spanned Dynamic NTFS Healthy 973 71 GB 973 62 Computer Management Local El System Tools fa Event Viewer Shared Folders 2 Local Users and Groups ty Performance Logs and Alert 4 Device Manager B eg Storage Removable Storage Disk Defragmenter Disk Management f gt El m Services and Applications SDisk 0 Dynamic C E F 28 00 GB 15 86 GB NTI 12 01 GB NTI 10 13 GB NTF Online Healthy Gps Healthy Healthy Z9isk 1 Dynamic F 6 950 00 GB 10 13 GB NTFS 939 87 GB NTFS Online Healthy Healthy Z9Disk 2 Dynamic G 249 99 GB 33 84 GB NTFS 216
35. nallocated space which should be equal to or larger than the volume slices you want to move www dynamic disk com 29 support aomeitech com Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual Move Volume Slice Wizard Select Destination Disk Select the destination place to move the volume Disk3 Dynamic MBR 250 0066 Neapiska l Dynamic MBR 160 00GB 160 00GB Unallocated Required Unallocated Space 12 01GB Current Selected Space 216 15GB Help Select Destination Disk After completing the above steps we can find the simple volume E originally located on Disk 1 has been moved to Disk 3 At the same time there is 12 01 GB unallocated space behind C drive Now we are able to extend system volume C drive to the contiguous unallocated space amp Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Unlimited Edition elni xi Actions Operations Wizards View Help A i Ole ES Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending Operations 1 a ume Capacity Used space Free space Type File system Status General Operations la Dynamic Yolume oe Create Volume Se Volume Properties s Healthy Boot System Ne E 12 01GB 64 84MB 11 94GB Simple NTFS Healthy Ne 20 2668 65 10MB 20 2068 Striped RAIDO NTFS Healthy x Wizards i8 gt Kp Create Volume Wizard Dynamic Disks 3 Add Drive to RAID Nespiski ggg m Dynamic MBR C E 39 Remove
36. namic Disk Manager User Manual change size of dy Z 878 91GB NTFS Simple Unallocated Space Before Volume Volume Size 878 9168 E Unallocated Space After Volume Shrink Volume Tips After completing step2 we can find the generated unallocated space is behind simple volume D but not C drive In order to extend C drive there must be some contiguous unallocated space behind it Then M ove Slice function becomes useful Actions Operations Wizards View Help 9060n0 85 Commit Discard Undo Redo Refresh View Pending Operations 1 aS s Volume Capacity Usedspace Freespace Type File system Status Se Create Volume y c Volume D e fa Volume Properties Gc 30 00GB 23 37GB 6 63GB Simple NTFS Healthy Boot Si D New Volume 41 0968 91 04MB 41 00GB Simple NTFS Healthy M Ne E New Volume 500 25GB 11722M8 5001368 Simple NTFS Healthy Wizards LA Unallocated 378 6668 e Create Volume Wizard Basic Volume e v UR ape RAD S 0 2 00GR 48 50MR 195GR Primary NTFS Healthy Active Sustem 7 S Remove Drive from RAID lt I a zm al Dynamic Disks R Move Volume Slice Wizard No Disk2 es Dynamic MBR 1 9 D New E New Volume 950 00GB Unal 30 00Gt 41 09GB 500 25GB Simple Basic Disks 378 66GB Unallocated z N Diski IE BescMER Q 950 00GB 2 00
37. nd simple and spanned volume as soon as there s unallocated space wherever www dynamic disk com 12 support aomeitech com it is existing Other kind of dynamic volume could not like this Move Slice Note To move a volume slice there must be unallocated space beside the slice Step1 On disk panel right click the slice you want to move select M ove Slice Step2 In the pop up window point the mouse on the volume when it become Cross drag it then click Ok Then you will find the volume slice has been moved and the unallocated space has also been moved Through this you could move the unallocated space behind the system volume to extend system volume Tips To learn more examples please refer to Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager C ase Study Change Label The volume label is a short name that you can assign to a volume to better differentiate it from other volumes Through set different labels to different volume you could know the purpose of each volume easily such as if the volume contains the system data we could label it System and etc Aomei Dynamic Disk Manger could help you achieve this easily Step1 Right click the volume you want to set label Select C hange L abel Step2 Entering the name you want to set and click OK Step3 Click Commit on the toolbar Note You could change label during creating or formatting a volume Change Letter As the same as basic partition d
38. ndow click OK Step3 Click C ommit on the toolbar to achieve the goal Note If your OS is Windows 2000 xp when you click Convert to Dynamic Disk the software would guide you to complete the conversion by using the built in Disk Management In Windows 7 2003 2008 Vista you could use this function to convert basic disk to dynamic directly Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager could also help you convert dynamic disk to basic disk without losing any data Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the dynamic disk you want to convert select C onvert to Basic Disk Step2 In the pop up window click OK Step3 Click Commit on the toolbar to finish the operation Note You could only convert the dynamic disk which contains the simple or mirrored volume other types of volumes cannot be handled For more info please read FAQ Convert to MBR Disk As we know we can not use the built in Disk Management to convert the GPT basic disk which contains the partitions Luckily Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager offers this function you could convert GPT basic disk to MBR without deleting any partition Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the GPT disk that you want to convert select Convert to MBR Disk Step2 Click OK in the pop up window Step3 Click C ommit to perform the operation Note 1 You can not convert GPT disk that contains more tha
39. not recommend changing it and the label Format Volume Step by Step Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager right click the volume you want to format Select Format Volume Step2 In the pop up window you could set up the file system the cluster size and the label After setting up all the information click Finish Stpe3 Finally click C ommit to perform the operation Resize and Move Volume Resize Volume Resize Volume includes extend shrink move volume In Windows the built in Disk Management could help you extend non system simple spanned volume Note only there s an unallocated space behind the volume you want to increase then the extend volume is live If the unallocated space is on other dynamic disk after extending the simple volume it will become spanned volume Other kind of dynamic volume such as Striped volume Mirrored volume and Raid 5 10 Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager User Manual could not be extended In Windows 7 2008 Vista the built in Disk Management could help you shrink volume other Windows OS could not Luckily Aomei Dynamic Disk Manger breaks this ice you could not only resize non system or system volume support all Windows OS but also support resizing moving all kinds of dynamic volume Resize System Volume Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager offers you an easy and safe way to extend system volume in order to solve low disk space problem Note 1 There must be some un
40. s 4 KB File System It is a method of storing and organizing arbitrary collections of data A file system tracks free and occupied space supports folders and files names and stores the physical positions of files on a disk Examples of file systems that are supported in Windows are FAT 16 also known simply as FAT FAT32 and NTFS When formatting a volume you can choose a file system for it The NTFS is now being set as the default file system Disk Style The disk partition style could be initialized as MBR or GPT The MBR style could support the maximum 2 TB hard disk and it could support at most 4 partitions in one hard disk four primary partitions or three primary partitions with one extended partition The GPT style could support the maximum 18 EB hard disk and each hard disk could contain at most 128 partitions in Windows OS About Aomei Dynamic Disk M anager Aomei DDM Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager DDM is an easy to use and multifunction dynamic disk and volume management software with user friendly operations to assist you to manage the volumes and dynamic disk With the help of DDM you can easily amp fast create delete the volume and the most advantage is that it can resize move your volume to readjust the volume on the basis that it ensures the security of your valuable data You could also convert your disk from dynamic to basic or GPT to MBR without deleting any volumes M ain feature Extend Shrink Volume Resize Mov
41. ynamic volume has its own drive letter too Through C hange L etter you could change every non system volume s drive letter Step1 Right click the volume you want to change drive letter on the main interface of Aomei Dynamic Disk Manger Select C hange L etter Step2 In the pop up window select the letter you want From a to z Step3 Click C ommit to apply the operation Note Any drive letter is only In Windows OS the system drive letter is default as C you can t change it Operation Wizard Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager offers the Operation Wizard which could assist you to realize some special operations Follow the wizard you could complete these operations easily Create Volume Wizard Step1 Click C reate Volume Wizard on the main interface of DDM Step2 In the pop up window follow the wizard to complete creating volume Step3 Finally click C ommit on the tool bar to finish the operation Add Drive to RAID Add Drive Disk to RAID could help you add new drive to Striped Volume RAID 0 and RAID 5 in order to extend this kind of volume without re creating Software RAID array Step1 Launch Aomei Dynamic Disk Manger click Add Drive to RAID on the main interface of DDM Click Next in the pop up window Step2 In the next window select the volume you want to add disk Then click Next Step3 Select the disk that you want to add Click Finish then cl
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