Re: DiskPart on Win2K SP4 Extending RAID 5 data volume

From: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] (robtm_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 07:35:29 -0400

Hello Rick,

What is happening here is that the partition is being resized but the file
system isn't expanding to fill the new size. Give us a call and request the
'FSEXTEND' tool. FSEXTEND will increase the size of the file system so the
MFT knows to use all of the new partition size. 

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"Rick Gummerson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F1562D94-260A-4F62-8C54-844EA1212E55@microsoft.com...
> KB article 329826 describes the exact problem i have. After running
Diskpart to extend a data volume, Disk Manager shows the expanded capacity,
yet the properties and actual is stuck at the original size.
>
> I contacted MS and they insisted on sending me the hot fix referred to in
this article, even though it is a pre-emptive measure, and I was already
running SP4 when the "gremlin" occured. The hot fix would not install due to
SP greater than 3 already installed.
>
> Does anyone, PLEASE, have knowledge how to fix this anomoly??
>
> Thank you
>
> Rick

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