IBM Intellistation Raid configuration help 2

[countycat]

I have an IBM Intellistation M PRO 6850 which has a c: drive which is a 18 gig SCSI with a motherboard controller. I also have a D: which is Raid 5 configured with 4 18 gig drives with it's own controller in a slot on the motherboard. I have two issues. One, the C: is running out of room and I was going to add or replace the drive for a bigger one. This drive is formatted as FAT32 when it was new. Can I easily convert this to NTSF? Or would there have been a reason for formatting it to FAT32 in the first place? What would I gain by converting to NTSF? This machine runs Windows 2000.
Second question is On the D: I recently added another 18 gig drive thinking I could add that too the C: but found out I could not (I didn't know the whole configuration before doing this the first time). So I then decided to take the drive back out and in reading the ServeRaidManager help it said to make the drive defunct which I did. Now I get the yellow error marker on the raid array in ServeRaid Manager. Now I can't do anything with that drive as far as right clicking ion it. When I originally installed this disk I formatted it to FAT32 thinking I could add it to the c: space. Anyhelp would be appreciated.

 

[kjv1611]

1. Filesystem: If I'm correct on this, in order to change the file system, you have to reformat the hard drive, and reinstall the OS, program files, etc. NTFS should help some if you get a larger hard drive, but you probably won't see much difference especially on an 18 Gig hard drive.

2. For your situation there, are you saying that the 2nd hard drive is still connected, and a RAID array showing up? Also, if you told the system it was defunct, that may be why you cannot do anything with that drive.

And, initially, when you added the second drive, did you tell the RAID configuration to set it up as RAID 0 or RAID 1 or JBOD or what?

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[countycat]

Thanks for the reply but I have gotten this all figured out now. I ended up imageing the c: drive and then installing a larger drive for c: then restoring tot hat larger drive and all is working now. I also ended up rebuiding the d: drive with raid 5.

 

[Freestone]

Just for future reference, Windows 2000 CONVERT command allows one to change from FAT filesystem to NTFS without having to reformat & reinstall. Note that this is a one-way conversion.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214579

 

[kjv1611]

Interesting info, Freestone.

Is that also the case with Windows XP?

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[Freestone]

Yes -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097

 

[kjv1611]

Indeed some good info to remember.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me