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2.3.4 Creating Spanned Volumes
Spanned volumes contain disk space from up to 32 physical disks. This enables you to group different disks
of the same or different sizes and access them as if they were one disk. However, only one disk in the
volume is written to at a time. Spanned volumes provide 100 percent drive utilization but is not fault tolerant.
To create a spanned volume, do the following:
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Click on the
START
button to display the Start Menu
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Point to
ALL PROGRAMS
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Click on
ADMINISTARTIVE TOOLS
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Then click on
COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
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In the console three, expand the
STORAGE
node
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Then click on
DISK MANAGEMENT
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In the details pane, right-click the unallocated space on the dynamic disk on which you
want to create a simple volume
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On the context menu, click
NEW VOLUME
to open the New Volume Wizard
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Click
NEXT
to continue
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On the Select Volume Type window, select
SPANNED
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Then click
NEXT
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Select the amount of space to be used for the simple volume
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Then click
NEXT
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Next, select a drive letter for the simple volume, or choose to mount the new volume to
an empty NTFS folder
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If necessary, select the file system for the simple volume
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Then click
NEXT
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Click
FINISH
to complete the process
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