You should be able to right click and extend in Vista's disk management.

Failing that, run diskpart.
List disk
Select disk x (where x is the logical disk presented by the RAID card)
list volume
select volume x (where x is the volume you want to extend)
extend
exit

That should be it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:20 AM
> To: hwg
> Subject: [H] Extending volume on RAID
> 
> I just adding another drive to my HTPC RAID, bringing the total
> capacity to
> 4 TB.  I used the RAID tools to extend the drive with no probs.  My
> issue is
> I can't seem to make use of the new space in Vista.  I go into the disk
> management console, I can see the 900 or so free GB on the drive, but
> can't
> extend the drive.
> 
> Is this an issue with using the 32-bit version?  Or do I need to do the
> expansion using an offline tool like Gparted?
> 
> ---
> Brian


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