I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 and converted physical disks to dynamic disks and combined them to a spanned volume. Yesterday, one disk started throwing S.M.A.R.T Errors, so I decided to get a new disk to replace it.
Now, I installed it to my system, converted it to a dynamic disk and made it part of the spanned volume. My Question is: How can I remove the old disk from the spanned volume, without losing data?
Best Answer
So it's just a plain old spanned, non-RAID-protected, volume right?
If, well you'll have to backup the entire volume, replace the disk, rebuild a blank new spanned volume and restore your data.
Essentially you have no easy way to do this, consider using some from RAID other than spanning's effectively R0 setup.