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Shrinking

The document provides instructions for performing various volume management tasks in Windows 10, including shrinking, extending, mirroring, spanning, and striping a volume. It describes how to access the Disk Management utility and shrink an existing volume to make unallocated space. Then it explains how to extend the volume back to reclaim the freed space. Mirroring involves adding a disk, deleting an existing volume, and using the remaining unallocated spaces to create a mirrored volume for fault tolerance. Spanning combines unallocated spaces across multiple disks into one large logical volume. Striping also improves performance by distributing data across disks. The procedures are demonstrated with screenshots of the Disk Management interface.

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Shrinking

The document provides instructions for performing various volume management tasks in Windows 10, including shrinking, extending, mirroring, spanning, and striping a volume. It describes how to access the Disk Management utility and shrink an existing volume to make unallocated space. Then it explains how to extend the volume back to reclaim the freed space. Mirroring involves adding a disk, deleting an existing volume, and using the remaining unallocated spaces to create a mirrored volume for fault tolerance. Spanning combines unallocated spaces across multiple disks into one large logical volume. Striping also improves performance by distributing data across disks. The procedures are demonstrated with screenshots of the Disk Management interface.

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ASSIGNMENT 3

AIM: To Shrink, Extend, Mirror, Spanned and Striped a Volume.


REQUIREMENTS:
● VMware Workstation
● Windows 10 Virtual Machine
PROCEDURE:
PART-A (SHRINKING A VOLUME)
SHRINK: The process to decrease the space used by primary partitions and logical drives by
shrinking them into adjacent, contiguous space on the same disk.
1. To start with the Shrinking and extending a volume process you need to go to the Disk
management. Type diskmgmt.msc on the windows search and press Enter.
2. After pressing Enter a Disk Management window will appear. Disk Management is a
system utility in Windows that enables you to perform advanced storage tasks. Here are
some of the things Disk Management is good for:
● To setup a new drive, see Initializing a new drive.
● To extend a volume into space that's not already part of a volume on the same drive, see
Extend a basic volume.
● To shrink a partition, usually so that you can extend a neighboring partition, see Shrink a
basic volume.
● To change a drive letter or assign a new drive letter, see Change a drive letter.

3. Select the new volume and Right Click on it and select Shrink. You cannot Extend the
volume because you need two volumes to Extend a volume. And one should be
unallocated volume. So, we will shrink the given volume so that we can extend it back
again.

4. After clicking on the Shrink volume, a new shrink window will appear where you can
choose the size of the volume you want to Shrink. You can also manually enter the
amount of space you want to Shrink and click the Shrink Button.

5. Here we enter 30000 MB which is almost equivalent to 30 Gb. And then press Enter or
click on the Shrink Button.

6. After clicking on the Shrink button, you will see that an unallocated volume (29.30 GB)
will appear on the Disk Management window.
PART-B (EXTENDING A VOLUME)
EXTEND: The process to add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by
extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk
1. Now when you Right Click on the New Volume (E:), you will find the Extend volume
options just above the Shrink volume. Click on the Extend volume to proceed further.

2. After clicking on the Extend volume a new wizard will appear. This wizard will help
you increase the size of a simple and spanned volumes. Click Next to proceed with the
extension of a volume.
3. An extend volume wizard will appear. Where you need to select the Disk, you want to
extend. And click Next to proceed further.

4. After clicking Next, a completion wizard will appear. Which shows you the settings you
have selected. Click on the Finish button to complete the volume extension.
5. Now, you can go back to the disk management to check if the volume has Extended or
not. As you can see the unallocated 29.30 GB is gone and the New Volume (E:) which
was 30 GB in size has been extended into 59.87 GB.

PART-C (MIRRORING A VOLUME)


MIRROR VOLUME: A mirror volume is a hard drive or other form of storage media that
stores an exact copy of the data from another volume. It is used for fault tolerance, which means
mirrored volume serves as backup device in case the primary device fails.
1. Add a new virtual hard disk like the previous Assignment (2), it should be the same size
with the volume you have already created before.

As you can see, the virtual disk has been created and it is unallocated.
2. Right click on the allocated volume and delete the volume. So that it is unallocated. We
need to delete the allocated volume because it needs two unallocated volumes to create a
mirror volume.

3. This window will appear when you click on the Delete volume option Click the Yes
button to proceed further.
4. After clicking Yes, you will see that the allocated volume is deleted. You will now find
out that there are two unallocated volumes.

5. Now, Right click on any of the unallocated volume and select New Mirrored Volume.

6. After selecting the New Mirrored Volume, a New Mirrored Volume Wizard will
appear. Click on the Next button to proceed with the mirroring process.
7. A new window will appear where you have to select the disks you want to use for the
mirroring. And then click Add.
8. After clicking Add you will see that the available disk (Disk 2) will be moved to the
Selected disk. And click Next.

9. This will take you to the next window where you can assign any Letters to the drive.
Which will make it easier for you to access the drive. So, select a drive letter and click
Next without making any other changes.
10. After clicking Next. A Format window will appear where you can choose whether you
want to format the volume or not? If yes, choose the NTFS File system since it is not
possible in FAT32 as the given volume exceeds 30GB. You can also give the Volume
label. For e.g. Local Disk (E:). And click Next after selecting the settings.

11. A Completion Wizard will appear which will show you the settings you have selected.
Click Finish to complete the Mirroring process.
12. Once the volume format is completed you will see that there are two volumes with the
same name. It is possible only in a mirrored process.

Fig 23.1: The formatting process.

Fig 23.2 The New volume (E:) with Same Size (59.87GB each), same Drive letter.
13. Now you will see that the Mirroring is completed and the layout of the volume is in
Mirror and is of Dynamic Type.

PART-D (SPANNING A VOLUME)


SPANNED VOLUME: A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on
more than one physical disk. By creating spanned volume, you can merge multiple
unallocated spaces of physical disks into one logical volume so as to utilize space on
multiple disks efficiently.
PROCEDURE:
1. Right click on an unallocated volume and select New Spanned Volume.

2. A New Spanned Wizard will appear after selecting it. Click Next to continue.

3. Select the available disk a click Add. And click Next.


4. Assign the Drive Letter. And click Next

5. Format the Volume to store the data on it. Select the NTFS file system, give a Volume
Label and click Next.
6. The Formatting is on the process and once it is completed the Hard disk is spanned and
ready to use.

Fig 6.1: Volume Formatting the Process.


Fig 6.2: Formatting completed.

PART-E (STRIPING A VOLUME)


STRIPED VOLUME: Similar to a Spanned, the main advantage is that it improves disk I/O
performance by distributing I/O request.
1. Same as the spanned Right click on any unallocated volume and select New Striped
Volume. A new Striped Volume Wizard will appear. Click the Next button to continue.

2. Select the available disk a click Add. And click Next.


3. Assign the Drive Letter. And click Next

4. Format the Volume to store the data on it. Select the NTFS file system, give a Volume
Label and click Next.
5. After formatting a volume, a completion window will appear where it shows all your
selected settings. Click on Finish to complete the process.

6. The Formatting is completed and the Hard disk is stripped and ready to use.

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