Re: HELP! Running out of space!

From: michael (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:19:49 -0700

Sorry, I missed the whole bottom part of your post. I'll
give diskpart a try. Vielen Dank!

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Michael,
>which version of Windows Server you are running?
>michael wrote:
>> I have a 3-disk RAID 5 array separated into 2 logical
>> drives ("C" and "D"). "D" is almost out of space (less
>> than 1GB). I added another disk to the array, and it
was
>> successfully added to the via the utility at start-up.
>> But in Windows, I can't get the current "D" partition to
>> extend to the new disk (which shows as unallocated).
From
>> Disk Management, Extend Volume Wizard, the new drive
>> doesn't show as available to add. HELP! I'm running
out
>> of time!
>
>BTW: Did you enable NTFS compression already? This can
also save a lot of
>space if the file structure is not to bad.
>On old systems you may need to use 3rd party applications
(like older
>versions of Partition Magic - DOS based part or software
like Server Magic).
>Some possibilities may also depend from the RAID hard and
software.
>On a Windows 2003 Server is another possibility available:
>first make sure, that there are no open files on the
drive you want to
>extend. (And of course, in disk manager the unused space
must show up as
>free space on the same logical harddisk, directly
following the partition
>you want to extend.
>Open command prompt by Start/Run/CMD.
>Enter the command diskpart.
>Select the proper disk, then the partition you want to
extend.
>Enter the command Extend.
>Exit diskpart.
>If you are lucky and no condition hits, which doesn't
allow diskpart to
>extend, your drive D: spans now the full logical drive.
>Best greetings from Germany
>Olaf
>
>.
>

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