Dynamic disks and spanning on W7

[Funkstar]

Can you span a dynamic volume over multiple disks without loosing data?

A friend of mine has an almost full 1.5TB drive and wants to add a second.

I'm pretty sure he can add the new drive to windows, set it up as a dynamic disk, copy all the data from the original to it, then wipe the original disk and re-initialise is as a dynamic disk. Then he can span the data volume onto the new disk.

Is this right?

Yes I know there is no fault tolerance etc. He is planning to get another couple of 1.5TB disks for offline backup fairly soon, just one thing at a time. This is all going into a new PC, the parts of which are on order from Scan.

[Splash]

In theory, yes. In practice... I'd be wanting to take an offline copy of the data, create the dynamic volume and then copy it back.