Diskpart.  Did this with ISCSI all the time, when we expand the volume
adding additional drives windows just sees a bunch of free space.

 

As long as Windows sees available space on the logical drive it can
expand it.  Make sure you have a good backup.

 

Diskpart >cr

Select volume x: <where x is your drive letter to expand

Extend >cr

 

Greg

 

From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: new hard drives in proliant

 

Partition Magic???

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        From: David Mazzaccaro <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  

        To: NT System Admin Issues
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        Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:16 PM

        Subject: new hard drives in proliant

         

        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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