Safely Remove Disk Drive from Span Disk on Windows Server 2008

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Article describe below  about Step-by-Step how to safely removing disk drive from spanned volume on windows server 2008 without losing data, whatever your operating system running on physicall or virtual machine. This tips very usefull, easy to use and resolved the issue

When we need extended space on a volume, we need more physicall disk for this. On Windows-Based Operating System called as Span Disk.

A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on more than one physical disk. You need at least two dynamic disks in addition to the startup disk to create a spanned volume, If a simple volume is not a system volume or boot volume, you can extend it across additional disks to create a spanned volume (You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 dynamic disks), or you can create a spanned volume in unallocated space on a dynamic disk.

In this article i will show you on How to Remove Disk from Span Volume on Windows Server 2008. For case studies, we have 3 disk (lets say Disk1, Disk2 and Disk3) where configured as Span Volume and need to remove one disk from volume.

As case above, The most ideal is remove Disk3 from Span volume (as we can imagine that when creating Span volume we do extended on Disk2 first then Disk3). So, How can we remove disk without broke a volume and data including on volume. Following an Step below :

1. Reduce size span volume until Disk3 fully available size
2. Finish on step one, continue with make offline your Disk3 by right click on disk then choose offline (this step makesure that your disk3 has been fully available size, check your volume from windows explorer, if volume disapear then re-online your disk, it mean that your disk3 not fully available for size so you need to back at step 1)
3. If you has been make disk3 offline status and volume still exist, now you can remove your disk from your machine or disk configuration if you used VMware for your machine

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