I ran into this several times on the lowest-end Compaq RAID-1 controllers. Irritated me to no end. Probably can find my bitching about it on the archives of this mailing list. :-)
Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Sure. It looks like that's what I'm going to have to do. But it would sure be nice and far less time consuming if I could just expand the available space to the new disk in the RAID management software then use diskpart to expand the volume without having to down the server at all. I just wasn't sure if this is typical for the less expensive HostRAID controllers in general. -- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid More of a question than an answer but couldn't you take an image of the drive then copy the image back. Wouldn't that then let you use the whole 500 gb? On 9/9/08, HELP_PC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/> ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~