Administrator's Guide

RAID and Disk Management 27
6 Select the file system type and formatting options:
•
Perform a quick format — Formats the volume or partition without scanning for bad sectors in
the volume or partition. Check this box to use this format method.
NOTE: To decrease the disk formatting time, use the Quick Format option.
• Enable file and folder compression — Used only if you selected the NTFS format. Check this box
to use this format method.
7 Click OK to begin formatting.
A progress bar displays in the list view.
Deleting a Partition or Volume
NOTICE: You must delete all shares and shadow copies from your volume before you delete the volume. If a volume
is removed before all shares of that volume have been removed, the NAS MMC may not display the shares correctly.
1 Right-click the designated volume, and then click Delete Volume .
2 Click Yes to delete or No to cancel.
The volume is removed immediately if you click
Yes .
Working With Dynamic Volumes
Dynamic volumes are volumes created on dynamic disks using the Disk Management tool. This section
discusses how to create and extend dynamic volumes.
Creating a Dynamic Volume
1 Launch the Disk Management utility.
2 In the bottom half of the window, right click on the basic disk that you want to configure as dynamic
and click
Convert to Dynamic Disk .
3 In the Convert to Dynamic Disk window, click to select the disk(s) that you want to convert and then
click
OK .
4 When the Disks to Convert window appears, click Convert .
Extending a Dynamic Simple or Spanned Volume
You can extend a volume only if the following are true:
• The volume is formatted as NTFS.
• The volume was originally created on a dynamic disk.
• Unallocated space exists on a dynamic disk onto which the volume will be extended.