Hi all, I'm dealing with a SBS2011 server with a lot of disk space and I wanted to get some feedback from you. This Dell R710 server has 6x 2TB (5+1HS) in RAID-5 and is up and running live. However when it was installed, the array was configured as a single 7.4TB disk, and Windows was installed as 2x 1TB simple MBR partitions on that large disk, leaving roughly 5+TB unallocated. I guess the idea was to allocate it later? Right... anyway as I'm sure you know, MBR cannot address space larger than 2.1TB, and BIOS cannot address GPT partitions as bootable.
Now this particular server supports booting from UEFI to a GPT partition as an option. My question, have any of you dealt with this before? Something like an MBR-to-GPT conversion, modify the BIOS to boot to UEFI instead, and then partition the unallocated space. Sounds like some UEFI-related Server 2008 patches would need to be installed as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975535 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979374 I'd like to avoid a lengthy backup/rebuild if possible because this server is live. Looking for any feedback you could provide. Thank you gentlemen-- Best Regards, James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
