Upgrade DL360's mirrored hard drives in Windows 2K SP4 1

[dwmoore2121]

Bare with me as I am new to the whole server arena...

I am trying to upgrade 18.2 GB drives to 72 GB drives that are mirrored. I put the first drive in and let it build, rebooted, put in the second 72 GB drive and let it build and rebooted. I went into computer mgmt. and it is showing that it only sees the smaller drives that were in there before. I did not see a way to expand this inside of windows. Is there a special software program that I need to expand the drives? I also would like to expand the c:\ drive (partitioned as c: & d when I expand this, could you tell me if this is possible as well?

Thank you so much for your help.

 

[ntinlin]

Hi,

You need to run up the Compaq array configuration util and create a new array using the extra space on the drives.

Windows should then see the extra space after a reboot and allow you to create a new volume.

Some of the Compaq RAID cards will allow you to add the new space to your existing array but W2K has problems with this I believe.

Expanding your current volumes is more problematic.

NT4
Either Partition Magic Pro v5 (not later versions) or Server Magic should be able to resize your partitions for you. Also various 'partition manager' tools out there to do same.

W2K
Again Server Magic from Powerquest should do the job but is expensive. Or partition manager tools.

However if you already have a 4Gb C: drive on either OS then not a great deal of point expanding it. You can always move page file, printer spooler etc. to another drive.
If you are desperate to increase space on D: drive rather than creating another volume you could always do a volume set in NT or W2K. Actual name varies but it basically expands a volume over two or more disks (arrays in this case). You may not be able to do it under W2K however since you'd have to change the disk from basic to dynamic and you can't do this on a disk that contains the system partition.

All clear as mud really. Sorry.
Neill