Ok, either call me stupid or bad UI design on Microsoft's part but it was not obvious at all. I had done exactly that, but when I had selected the new space the "next" button was grayed out.
I just did it again and this time, hitting the up arrow to change the expand volume size by 1 more MB made hitting the "next" button possible. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
