Guest gram Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 We have to expand our disk space on our file server, we are running out of disk space. Unfortunately to do so would go over 2 tb so we have to convert from mbr to gpt. I thought this would be seamless, i.e add the disks in raid the go into windows disk manager and convert. To my horror according to microsoft you have to delete the partition then convert to gpt then you have to go through the hassle of restoring your data. Is there any way of doing this without have to delete data and restore?
Guest Edwin vMierlo [MVP] Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Re: mbr to gpt disks "gram" <plonk@plonk.com> wrote in message news:48772757$0$662$4d4eb98e@read.news.uk.uu.net... > We have to expand our disk space on our file server, we are running out of > disk space. Unfortunately to do so would go over 2 tb so we have to convert > from mbr to gpt. I thought this would be seamless, i.e add the disks in raid > the go into windows disk manager and convert. > > To my horror according to microsoft you have to delete the partition then > convert to gpt then you have to go through the hassle of restoring your > data. Is there any way of doing this without have to delete data and > restore? Nope, and we all feel your pain !
Guest gram Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Re: mbr to gpt disks thanks .....gulp... "Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" <EdwinvMierlo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uAuPaR14IHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "gram" <plonk@plonk.com> wrote in message > news:48772757$0$662$4d4eb98e@read.news.uk.uu.net... >> We have to expand our disk space on our file server, we are running out >> of >> disk space. Unfortunately to do so would go over 2 tb so we have to > convert >> from mbr to gpt. I thought this would be seamless, i.e add the disks in > raid >> the go into windows disk manager and convert. >> >> To my horror according to microsoft you have to delete the partition >> then >> convert to gpt then you have to go through the hassle of restoring your >> data. Is there any way of doing this without have to delete data and >> restore? > > Nope, and we all feel your pain ! > > >
Guest jas0n Posted July 12, 2008 Posted July 12, 2008 Re: mbr to gpt disks > >> To my horror according to microsoft you have to delete the partition > >> then > >> convert to gpt then you have to go through the hassle of restoring your > >> data. Is there any way of doing this without have to delete data and > >> restore? > > > > Nope, and we all feel your pain ! I've a couple of hp dl320s - 6 * 750gb sata drives in a raid6. They are not heavily used but fairly basic file & print member servers, probably going to use w2008. Is there any reason to leave partition sizes to 2TB or just go for gpt from the start with one large parition? the server has 6 free slots to add further 750gb disks to the array later on.
Guest gram Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Re: mbr to gpt disks use gpt from the start far less pain later on. "jas0n" <no@thank.you> wrote in message news:MPG.22e2dddcfcd7b8f989684@news.gradwell.com... >> >> To my horror according to microsoft you have to delete the partition >> >> then >> >> convert to gpt then you have to go through the hassle of restoring >> >> your >> >> data. Is there any way of doing this without have to delete data and >> >> restore? >> > >> > Nope, and we all feel your pain ! > > I've a couple of hp dl320s - 6 * 750gb sata drives in a raid6. They are > not heavily used but fairly basic file & print member servers, probably > going to use w2008. > > Is there any reason to leave partition sizes to 2TB or just go for gpt > from the start with one large parition? the server has 6 free slots to > add further 750gb disks to the array later on.
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