It's been awhile since I've worked with HP/Compaq Hardware, but yes, that
sounds about right.

Once the array has been expanded you'll want to use diskpart to expand the
volume.

cmd
diskpart
list volume
select volume x (x = the number of the volume you want to expand)
expand
exit

- Sean


On 2/29/08, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I (successfully) replaced all 4 (72GB) hard drives in a proliant server
> w/ 4 (300GB) drives.
>
> I replaced one drive at a time over the course of a week.
>
> Everything is working great, the Raid 5 array is only using them as 72GB
> drives.
>
> I realize this is exactly as design.
>
> So, Now I would like to utilize the extra 200GB on each drive.  I believe
> this is called expanding the array?
>
> Not sure where to go from here…
>
> The array configuration utility has an option to do this, so that shouldn't
> be a problem?
>
> After that, I assume I have to expand the logical drive to utilize the new
> space, and then somehow tell Windows to expand drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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