Virtual Disk Drive - 2008? 2TB limit?

[Guest boe]

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]

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

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> 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

>