The RAID management software correctly reports the size of the new drives added under Direct Attached Devices, however the Logical Devices shows the smaller size of the old drives. At this point I should be able to select this array, and from the Actions menu choose expand. This simply isnt in the menu however. Diskpart says the volume cant be expanded, which I expected as a result. Oh well. I will just image the drive and redo the RAID this weekend.
-- Mike Gill From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Your logical disc may not have any more space? Unless you told the raid card to expand it, in other words there is simply free space that only your raid card see's. You can easily grow a partition online once you solve that with diskpart (Check if you can grow the system partition online, otherwise boot to a PE disc you can download free from ms). jlc _____ From: HELP_PC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: I: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _____ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
