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Resize dynamic volume
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[/body][smallbold]EaseUS Partition Master[/smallbold][body] helps you resize a dynamic volume, including simple volume, mirrored volume, spanned volume, striped volume and RAID 5 volume from the tail easily. Especially, [/body][smallbold]EaseUS Partition Master[/smallbold][body] can resize dynamic [/body][smallbold]system[/smallbold][body] volume without problem.

However, if the volume which has been set the [/body][smallbold]Quota[/smallbold][body], it cannot be shrink. And you can only extend it using our program. In order to shrink it, you need to disable the [/body][smallbold]Quota[/smallbold][body] of the volume. Please right click the volume in Windows explorer, and then choose [/body][smallbold]"Properties"[/smallbold][body]. Now you can choose and set the [/body][smallbold]"Quota"[/smallbold][body] here.

To resize a dynamic volume:
1. Select the volume to be resized.
2. Click [/body][smallbold]Partitions[/smallbold][body] > [/body][smallbold]Resize volume[/smallbold][body].  
3. On a disk map, the current size of the partition is displayed on the top of the dialog box. It also displays the used and unused space of the volume, and the free space surrounding the volume (if any exists). The minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition appear below the map.
4. Position the mouse pointer on the right volume handle.
5. The mouse pointer turns to a double-headed arrow.
6. Drag the dot to the volume size you want.
7. Click [/body][smallbold]OK[/smallbold][body] to add the pending operation.  


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[image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] The dynamic volume can be resized from its tail only (cannot be resized from its head).

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] On GPT drives, any volume labeled as "Boot" or "System" in [/body][smallbold]Disk Management[/smallbold][body] can't be resized.

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] EaseUS Partition Master can resize the volume that belongs to the current computer only. You cannot connect dynamic disks from another computer to the current computer to resize.

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] If you increase the simple volume space to multiple dynamic disks, it will change into extend volume.

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] The spanned volume will change into a simple volume after shrinking it to single dynamic disk. However, it is not available for a striped volume.

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] EaseUS Partition Master only supports resizing dynamic volume of NTFS and FAT (FAT16/FAT32) file system.

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] The dynamic volume cannot be extended unless there is at least 100MB of unallocated space..

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] If the free space (unused space) of the system volume is less than 2GB, you cannot shrink it any more.
	
[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] The system volume which is FAT32 file system cannot be extended to discontinuous unallocated space on the same hard disk. Only NTFS volume can be done.

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