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Increase partition size on RAID mirrored disk volume
Hello!
Was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I've come across recently. I had a working RAID system running 1 set of mirrored disks however both the disks have recently died. Thankfully the drives died a few months apart, and I was able to connect replacement disks and the mirroring continued. However, I am now at the stage where I have a 250GB RAID, but the partitions are only at 150GB as this was the size of my original array. What is the best way I can re-size my mirrored disk volume to it uses the full 250GB that's available? I'm surprised it's not an automated process. I've looked around the Intel Matrix RAID utility but can't seem any option that would allow me to do this. I have also tried the CTRL-I option at boot time, but there is also no option there to expand the RAID into the available space. I've also tried the XP disk manager as well as some third part disk partition utilities although they don't see my hard drive as a RAID volume, only 1 disk that is using the full space available. Anyone got any ideas? I suppose I could break the RAID and return to a single booting SATA drive, then expand the partition, then perform another RAID migration, however I'm sure there's an easier way, and this Intel Matrix based motherboard is very fussy about performing RAID migrations and officially only does it if it's a fresh XP installation. Cheers, Joe |
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wrote in message ups.com... I had hoped Partition Magic would be more intelligent and be able to recognise and manipulate the Intel RAID layer, but unfortunately it sees it the same way as Windows Disk Manager, just as a single "virtual" disk. In some cases you may get an option in the raid setup that asks if you wish to delete the data. Not all raid chipsets have this option. Like Kony said, copy the data to other storage and delete (rebuild if you have that option might work too) the array and set it up again. If you get the option of whether or not to delete the data, you might get lucky. If not, you will have the data backed up to put it back. Ed |
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