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dynamic disk conversion avoidence
I'm using Windows 8.1 pro and I've just expanded my raid 6 (via a raid controller) from 4 x 4TB to 8 x 4 TB (22.3TB). I have two partitions on this disk, one at .5 TB and the other has been expanded a bit as I expanded the raid disk size. At the moment its at 13.8 TB and I've got 8 TB spare, but as I try to increase this partition to utilise all the spare space, Windows tells me that it can only do so by converting it to a dynamic disk. From what I understand about dynamic disks, they're great unless you want to expand them, and you never know!
Why does Windows insist on converting to a dynamic disk and can I avoid it?
Many thanks,
Robby