Excuse the repost... for some reason my previous posts can't be found
on the server.



Not sure if I'm just being stupid or what...

I've got a Windows 2003 Server. I have several 500gig hard drives
assembled into a software RAID5 array. This array works well.

I've just installed a new 500gig hard drive into this PC. It comes up
in the Disk Manager and I was able to convert it to a dynamic disk, but
I can't figure out how to add this drive to the array.

I was able to do this the last time I added a drive to the PC, but I do
not remember how.

How do you expand a RAID5 array after installing a new hard drive into
the system???


Also, a related question... How can you see how big a single partition
assigned to a RAID5 array is? How can I see what size to allocate on
the new drive to match othe existing drives in the array?

All help is appreciated!!!

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Re: Expanding a software RAID5 array in Windows 2003 by Calab

Calab
Sat Jun 21 13:28:21 PDT 2008

ANYONE!

Why aren't these posts going through???


> Excuse the repost... for some reason my previous posts can't be found on the
> server.
>
>
>
> Not sure if I'm just being stupid or what...
>
> I've got a Windows 2003 Server. I have several 500gig hard drives assembled
> into a software RAID5 array. This array works well.
>
> I've just installed a new 500gig hard drive into this PC. It comes up in the
> Disk Manager and I was able to convert it to a dynamic disk, but I can't
> figure out how to add this drive to the array.
>
> I was able to do this the last time I added a drive to the PC, but I do not
> remember how.
>
> How do you expand a RAID5 array after installing a new hard drive into the
> system???
>
>
> Also, a related question... How can you see how big a single partition
> assigned to a RAID5 array is? How can I see what size to allocate on the new
> drive to match othe existing drives in the array?
>
> All help is appreciated!!!

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