Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had (4) 72GB drives in a RAID5, I replaced one at a time with 300GB drives.
The array doesn't change, so it is only using 72GB of each drive. This array only contains data. There is a separate RAID1 which Windows 2003 server is installed on. ________________________________ From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant David, I'm not sure that what you are planning is going to work. I could be all wet, but I think the Proliant software will expand if you have free space on the volume. Your array sounds like it was already maxed when it was originally built on the old drives. If I am understanding what you are saying, you replaced raid members that were 72gb with 300gb drives? When you added the 300gb drive (one at a time) and the array rebuilt it, it did so as though it was a 72gb drive. That isn't going to give you more space. Does this array also hold the OS? ________________________________ From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: new hard drives in proliant 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. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
