Guest boe Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Hello, I set up a copy of 2008 on my home PC and everything seemed normal to me but then again I don't have a disk array on my home PC. I have a dell 2900 with a 6i controller. It was set for RAID 5 when I got it with two virtual drives in the controller set up. I wanted to be able to partition it any way I wanted. The server has about 3.5 TB usable space. I deleted the virtual disk in the controller set up and installed a single 3.5 TB vitual drive. When I installed Windows 2008, it saw the single drive and I created a 75GB partition for the OS. When I finished installing the 2008 and I logged in for the first time, I went to disk management. It shows the C Partition, and two unused partitions - one about 2 TB, and the other about 1.5TB. Is there a way to have it create a 3.5 TB partition with no break in it? I'm pretty sure I could have it extend the partition 2 TB to the 1.5 TB but I'm not sure why the partion is there or if I shouldn't have used a virtual drive to begin with. I don't want to go any further in the install till I know what is the nature of 2008. I had originally tried not creating a virtual drive in the array controller utilty on boot up but when I had no virtual drive, Windows 2008 didn't have any drive for me to install on. Thanks
Guest boe Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 Re: Virtual Disk Drive - 2008? 2TB limit? It looks like 2008 still has the 2TB limit. I'll create a small array for the boot OS and then create a larger one which I can convert to a guid partition GPT supports larger partitions but not if they are the boot OS for windows. "boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e3H8RPN2IHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I set up a copy of 2008 on my home PC and everything seemed normal to me > but then again I don't have a disk array on my home PC. I have a dell > 2900 with a 6i controller. It was set for RAID 5 when I got it with two > virtual drives in the controller set up. I wanted to be able to > partition it any way I wanted. > > The server has about 3.5 TB usable space. I deleted the virtual disk in > the controller set up and installed a single 3.5 TB vitual drive. When > I installed Windows 2008, it saw the single drive and I created a 75GB > partition for the OS. When I finished installing the 2008 and I logged > in for the first time, I went to disk management. It shows the C > Partition, and two unused partitions - one about 2 TB, and the other about > 1.5TB. Is there a way to have it create a 3.5 TB partition with no break > in it? I'm pretty sure I could have it extend the partition 2 TB to the > 1.5 TB but I'm not sure why the partion is there or if I shouldn't have > used a virtual drive to begin with. > > I don't want to go any further in the install till I know what is the > nature of 2008. > > I had originally tried not creating a virtual drive in the array > controller utilty on boot up but when I had no virtual drive, Windows 2008 > didn't have any drive for me to install on. > > Thanks >
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