Hi all,
need some help.
Got a new server, and I'm having some problems with a big chunk of disk space that won't allow me to create a simple spanned volume.
I have 4 x 2TB HDD, using RAID5.
I've been able to get the OS finally installed, but when I go into disk management it tells me I have a primary partition of 100Gb for system files etc, then a 1.9TB simple spanned volume (E) then next to it is a big chunk of data 3.9GB of unused space.
When I right hand click on it, I can't promote it as a simple volume, all the options are greyed out.
What's going on?! :(
I ran partition manager and it told me that I already had 4 primary partitions already created on the logical disks....now I'm proper confused.
I'm using Windows 2008R2 x64 bit.
I tried going into the Orca of the RAID array and removing the physical partitions and it had told me that it had done this, then I used the HP Easy cd setup and I created the raid5 again, with a 100Gb parition and left the rest of the 5TB of data to go on to the E drive, but upon installing the OS for a second time, I was faced with the same problem.
Utterly confused now.
Does anybody out there know where I'm going wrong, or what needs to be done to get all the available space back?
Many thanks in advance.
Stevie
