Creating a Simple Volume

The Disk Management displays the partitions of the volumes and enables you to create a volume.

To create a new volume:

1. Open Computer Management console.

2. Click Disk Management.

3. Select the unallocated space in the dynamic disk.

4. Select Action > All Tasks > New Volume. The New Volume Wizard appears.

5. Click Next. The Select Volume Type screen appears.

6. Select the type of the volume.

7. Click Next. The Select Disks screen appears.

The different options on the Select Disks screen are:

> Available - Lists all the disks

> Selected - Lists the selected disks

> Add - includes the disk in the selected list

> Remove - Deletes the selected disk from the list

> Remove All - Deletes all disks from the list

> Maximum available space in MB - Specifies the available disk space

> Select the amount of space in MB - Specifies to select the disk space

8. Specify the amount of space, for example, 4110, in the Select the amount of space in MB spin box.

9. Click Next. The Assign Drive Letter or Path screen appears.

10. Select a drive letter from the Assign the following drive letter drop down box.

11. Click Next. The Format Volume Screen appears.

12. Select a file system, for example, NTFS.

13. Click Next. The Final screen appears.

14. Click Finish. Windows Server 2003 formats, creates the volume and lists in under Disk Management.