Extending Disk Volume

[dickey38]

In Vista Disk Management I see Disk 1 has 111.79 GB
-- Volume D: is 43.94 GB NTFS
-- this is followed by 67.85 GB "free space" (as contrasted with "unallocated" that shows up under Disk 0).

When I enter the Extend Volume Wizard and select an amount of space = 10 GB, then NEXT, then FINISH, I am informed that the disk will be converted to a dynamic disk.

Is this conversion necessary to extend a volume? Is there a reason to be wary of this?

Thanks.

[dickey38]

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Originally Posted by ****ey38

In Vista Disk Management I see Disk 1 has 111.79 GB
-- Volume D: is 43.94 GB NTFS
-- this is followed by 67.85 GB "free space" (as contrasted with "unallocated" that shows up under Disk 0).

When I enter the Extend Volume Wizard and select an amount of space = 10 GB, then NEXT, then FINISH, I am informed that the disk will be converted to a dynamic disk.

Is this conversion necessary to extend a volume? Is there a reason to be wary of this?

Thanks.

Answering my own question:
"Free Space" is different from "Unalloc Space"
I deleted the "Free Space" partition creating "Unalloc Space" and then was able to extend volume D without creating a dynamic disk.

Someone must be making lots of money from this overly obfuscated terminology for disk management.