Microsoft Windows 2003 supports the advance feature of clustering. The most important advantage that you get you clustered environment is the failover support for all back-end applications and the services, which are ought to have high availability and data integrity. You can extent your hard drive partitions/volumes in a clustered environment of Windows 2003, as per your data storage and data management requirements. This process is feasible using DiskPart.exe utility.
You can use command-extend through DiskPart utility, which allows you to easily extend disk partitions. But in some cases, when you extend disk partitions using DiskPart tool, the partition information may get lost and you might face critical partition loss situations. To overcome such situations, you need to opt for Partition Recovery solutions.
- DiskPart.exe is a partition, volume and disk management utility for Microsoft Windows. It enables you to manage objects with the help of direct input or scripts from command prompt. Before using this command, you need to first list all the hard drive volumes and then choose the one to give it focus.
This utility can only be used to hard drive partitions, when your system fulfills certain requirements. These requirements include NTFS file system, the volume must be a basic volume and it must have free space at the end of existing drive. If the requirements can not be fulfilled, you might get the following error message and the process does not complete:
DiskPart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending
In some cases, using DiskPart to extend hard drive partitions may prove harmful. It might remove the partition information and may make the partition inaccessible. This situation requires Partition Recovery to be sorted out. After changing the hard drive partition size using DiskPart in a clustered environment, while opening the partition, you might get the following error message:
The system cannot find the path specified.
In such situations, you should opt for Partition Recovery Software to retrieve your lost, missing or inaccessible hard drive partitions. These type of software are particularly designed to methodically scan the hard drive and recover all of the lost partitions. With simple and interactive graphical user interface, these software are completely easy to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive solution to handle all partition loss cases. It recovers all FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partition. This Partition Recovery Software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1/Vista/2003/XP/2000. It also performs RAW recovery in case of severe file system damage.
