Re: Raid 5 option not available on new dynamic volume

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From: aspirin2004 (aspirin2004_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:43:39 -0800

Thank you so much for your reply. That is exactly the
problem. Now I need to plan a reinstall in such a way as
to have those three hard drives available. I'll read the
article. Thank you again.

>-----Original Message-----
>Do you have any free, unformatted, un-partitioned space
on the first disk,
>or is it completely filled with the system/boot partition?
>
>You will need free space on at least three hard disks in
order to configure
>a RAID-5 volume, see this MS Knowledge Base article:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303237
>
>Best regards
>
>Bjorn
>--
>Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
>
>"aspirin2004" <aspirin2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I have 2003 standard server installed on a server with
an
>>Adaptec Ultra 160 card and 3 20gb ultra 160 hard drives.
>>
>>I installed the 2003 standard server operating system to
>>the first basic hard drive on the computer and then went
>>into computer management and converted all the drives to
>>dynamic.
>>
>>Now I'm right clicking and choosing new volume on the
>>second hard drive but the Raid 5 option is greyed out.
I
>>can do all the others including striping though. Can
>>anyone assist? I want to take these three drives and
Raid
>>5 them. Thank you so much.
>
>.
>

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