I have just replaced 2x36GB H/D for 2X146GB. Reason being i needed addittional space the drives rebuilded correcly.In disk manager i do not see any extra space.is there any think i have missed.
You have to create new logical drive in ACU on the free space. Then you can find the extra space in disk manager. Maybe you can run a hardware scan in device manager or restart your server!
I am not sure what you mean.There is no free space available.Currently i have 2x146Gb of installed in a Raid 1 configuration.Previous to this i had 2x36GB Raid 1 configuration.As i believe if i create a nother logical drive i will lose of current logical drive.My intentions were to rebuild each 36gb disk and replace one at a time with 146gb which i have done.By the way i am using w2003 standard edition.It looks to me i will have to trash and do a restore any less you can save the day.
If I understand you correctly you have replaced one of the 36Gb and replaced it with a 146 Gb disk and when the mirroring was ready you replaced the other 36Gb disk with a 146 Gb disk this will however not give you any more space than before since your diskpartion will still be 36Gb you have namely made a copy of the diskpartion that you hade before.
Im not sure how you can increase your diskpartion but I think you can use the dos command DISKPART (check the web for syntax to use) or partionmagic (a program that costs money). Before you run any of these command shutdown the server and remove one of the disks if disaster should struck so you have an easy way back.
You will have to press F2 when you boot the server with only one disk.
You should be able to use the Array Configuration Utility to do this. It supports a feature called "Online Logical Drive Capacity Expansion", which I think is what you want to do.
