Using unused space on HD

[atlantisburn]

I am running Win 2000 Adv Server. I have a 160 Gig HD. I formatted to 127 or so Gig. This was the highest without fiddling with BIOs and else. I want to know if I can format the the rest of that space without altering the 127gig part?

 

[vacunita]

Sure, you can partition the rest of the space and create a new drive which will get an additional letter.

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[Freestone]

Unless you've "fiddled with BIOs and else" to gain 48-bit LBA support, be careful trying to use the unused space as you run the chance of corrupting your current allocated partition!

A) Does the BIOS on your system see the entire drive size?
B) You must be at SP3 or better

http://www.48bitlba.com/win2k.htm

 

[atlantisburn]

BIOS says 136 is the drive size.

I have SP4.

 

[Freestone]

See if there is a motherboard BIOS flash available to enable support of larger drive sizes.

 

[wahnula]

See if there is a motherboard BIOS flash available to enable support of larger drive sizes

Freestone,

Most times I would be inclined to agree with you, but this is a server, which by definition to me is mission critical. We're talking about ~30GB here and I don't think it's worth flashing the BIOS on a stable server just to pick up a few GB.

True story: I was flashing the BIOS on my SBS2003 machine when there was a power failure, uncommon where I live. Luckily, I had a battery backup that kept the server powered up long enough to finish the upgrade before shutting down. The only benefit of the new BIOS was 64-bit support, which I have never used.

So, unless there's a storage crunch on the server, and 30GB would make a difference, I'd say let sleeping dogs lie. You can always add a PCI card that will allow more drives to be added in a RAID array or just solo drives.

Tony

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[Freestone]

Good advice, as always, Tony. I won't disagree one bit.

 

[atlantisburn]

Thanks