NTFS Resizing w/ Raid0+1

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

Ok, so...

Machine is an old compaq DL360 with a 5300 raid array. It only had two 17.5 gig hard drives running raid0+1 and I needed to install WSUS. Sounds easy, right? The damned thing only had 2 gig free (veritas, previous SUS and other assorted IT admin type files suck up lots of space). So, I say to myself, "Self, you can expand that." And I did. I pulled out one drive, let it rebuild, then the other, and it rebuilt and now I have two 36 gig hard drives and win2000 disk manager ID'd all the free space... however... And this is where it gets fun...there is no way through the disk manager to expand the NTFS partition. It will only create a new partition. I didn't like that option. I'm tired of having to admin 40 machines with 3 drives each and a file cluster with more shares than I can count. So, I went and got the System Resource CD and ran qtparted and the partition is now expanded to the full 33 gig (there's a hidden partition for boot-up tools, etc) BUT the damn OS still only sees 16.1 gig. WTF? I must be missing something here....

I have a screen shot but no capability to post the image from here... I can post it when I get home if needed.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:44:05 Post Subject:

What OS are you runniing??

If your running 2000/XP/2003 you can convert the disk from a Basic Disk to a Dynamic disk, then you can expand the partition.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:03:01 Post Subject:

It's how it's supposed to work. I've use a method similar to this to upgrade HDD's.