creating logical drives

[Kaiya]

I'm new to this so bear with me. I may ask some stupid questions. I have a poweredge 2400 server w/ disk 1 formatted as ntfs basic disk with 46.84gb online. However 16.95gb of that space is showing as free space. I extended the partition and i now want to create the logical drive. If i choose to mount this volume to an empty folder on d:\ will it add the 16gb to the 29gb on drive d? if i have to format will it only format the 16gb and not the 29gb? or do i have to create a new drive letter and be done with it.

Thanks

 

[NickFerrar]

Hmm I'm confused

It sounds like you have a single physical 46GB disk (which is odd in itself as this seems a non-standard size) that had 1 primary partition on it of 29GB which was formatted as NTFS.

As for what to do next, it depends what you want to end up with. A single 46GB drive (C or 1x 29GB drive (C and 1x 16GB drive (D?

If you want one C: then you need to either reformat and rebuild the server or use a 3rd party tool such as partition magic. If you want the remaining 16GB to be a D: drive then depending on what operating system you are running you need to create another primary partition (but don't mark it as the active partition), format this as NTFS and assign it drive letter D: (if you have a CD drive in the system you may need to re-assign this from D: to E: first - you could leave the hard disk as E: as well but personally I don't like doing that).