Good Day,

We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003 STD. We
have one big partition and have added another drive to the array. We cannot
expand the partition since it gives us an error " the system partition cannot
be expanded." How do we accomplish this .

Thanks for your help in advance.

Ray

Hello Ray,

Is the server installed witt SMART START from HP? Or do you use software
RAID configuration?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Good Day,
>
> We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Ray
>

Hello Ray,

Is the server installed witt SMART START from HP? Or do you use software
RAID configuration?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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no rights.
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> Good Day,
>
> We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Ray
>

Hello Ray,

With Smart Start tools you can use |Array configuration utility|

For software you can use from MS diskpart.exe:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;325590

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

But whatever you use, I highly recommend to make a good BACKUP BEFORE STARTING!!!!


Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Good Day,
>
> We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Ray
>

Hello Ray,

With Smart Start tools you can use |Array configuration utility|

For software you can use from MS diskpart.exe:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;325590

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

But whatever you use, I highly recommend to make a good BACKUP BEFORE STARTING!!!!


Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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no rights.
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> Good Day,
>
> We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Ray
>

thanks for the quick response Meinolf. We used the smart start raid tool that
comes with the server to create the partition and raid array originally.
We've successfully expanded the array but the extra space doesn't show up in
the OS.

THanks

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello Ray,
>
> With Smart Start tools you can use |Array configuration utility|
>
> For software you can use from MS diskpart.exe:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;325590
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> But whatever you use, I highly recommend to make a good BACKUP BEFORE STARTING!!!!
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> > Good Day,
> >
> > We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> > STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> > array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> > system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
> >
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> >
> > Ray
> >
>
>
>

thanks for the quick response Meinolf. We used the smart start raid tool that
comes with the server to create the partition and raid array originally.
We've successfully expanded the array but the extra space doesn't show up in
the OS.

THanks

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello Ray,
>
> With Smart Start tools you can use |Array configuration utility|
>
> For software you can use from MS diskpart.exe:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;325590
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> But whatever you use, I highly recommend to make a good BACKUP BEFORE STARTING!!!!
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> > Good Day,
> >
> > We have a Compaq proliant ml350 Raid 5 server running windows 2003
> > STD. We have one big partition and have added another drive to the
> > array. We cannot expand the partition since it gives us an error " the
> > system partition cannot be expanded." How do we accomplish this .
> >
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> >
> > Ray
> >
>
>
>