We currently have a 1TB drive on our Windows 2003 Server, that we've been using for a while. We needed additional space, so I decided on expanding that drive with a 2TB space on our AX150. Once it expanded, I reassigned it back to the server, but the server doesn't see it as one logical volume. It shows the original 1TB, and the new TB, which is fine, I can deal with having two drives. The 1TB is still intact, however the problem is that Windows won't let me access the new 2TB drive in Disk Management. I won't let me assign a drive letter, nor did the "Intialize Disk" wizard show up. What am I doing wrong? I did reboot a few times. Do I need to reverse what I did, and how can I?
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Expanded a LUN but having issues accessing it
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Just discovered the answer, I just needed to right click on the DISK6 on in Disk Management and select Covert to Dynamic Disk, once I did that I could expand and select the other drive in Windows. So, basically had to tell Windows to expand it, even though I expanded it on the SAN.
hi,
this is a way, but you have changed the type of volume.
When you have a LUN on a storage, it is a Logical disk,
and on it you build a NTFS partition (sometime whole, otherwise, 2 or more).
When you increase LUN size, using SAN tools, is as when you,
using Ghost, copy your 10gb partition from a 10gb hd to a 20GB Hard disk:
if you do just this, yu'll see on the new disk, 10 unused GB
Just using diskpart or 3rd part tools, after a sure backup, you can increase the no-dynamic partition from 10 to 20gb and see 10gb disk free.
ciao
vittorio
this is a way, but you have changed the type of volume.
When you have a LUN on a storage, it is a Logical disk,
and on it you build a NTFS partition (sometime whole, otherwise, 2 or more).
When you increase LUN size, using SAN tools, is as when you,
using Ghost, copy your 10gb partition from a 10gb hd to a 20GB Hard disk:
if you do just this, yu'll see on the new disk, 10 unused GB
Just using diskpart or 3rd part tools, after a sure backup, you can increase the no-dynamic partition from 10 to 20gb and see 10gb disk free.
ciao
vittorio
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