NAS server with a controller and dynamic logical drives (question)
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:49 PMI have a Windows server 2003 question. May I ask that in here I didn't see a 2003 forum?
Tommy- Edited by Malu Menezes Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:31 PM changing title to improve visibility :-)
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:46 PMAnswererHi Tommy,
Just post the question and if it is not related to the topic covered here, the moderators will move your post to the correct forum. =)
Regards,
Salvador Manaois III
MCSE MCSA CEH MCITP | Enterprise/Server Admin
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:05 PMOk great!
I have a NAS server with a controller and dynamic logical drives. Some of the logical drives are spanned volumes and some are just dynamic logical drives. If I want to rebuild my server will all of the drives show up they way they were or will I lose the spanned volumes?
Tommy
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:19 AM Hi Tommy,
After we rebuild the server without formatting the dynamic disks and the spanned volume, the operation system will recognize the information from the dynamic disks and show up the way they were. The system won't lose spanned volume in this case. This is because of the reason that dynamic disks are partitioned using Logical Disk Manager (LDM) partitioning. The LDM subsystem in Windows maintains one unified database that stores partitioning information for all the dynamic disks on a system—including multi-partition-volume configuration. The LDM database resides in a 1-MB reserved space at the end of each dynamic disk.
Hope it helps.
David Shen - MSFT- Marked As Answer by David Shen Friday, October 10, 2008 6:54 AM
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