Adding unallocated space options

[Guest Matthew Kyle]

Hello-

 

I have a HP ML350 server with a RAID 5 array (3 hard drives). I recently

added a 4th hard drive to the array have completed the expansion. When the

server was setup, we created 4 partitions. A system partition (C: drive), a

pagefile partition, a "current" data partition, and a "historical" data

partition, in that order. I now have and additional 136GB of unallocated

space that I want to add to the "current" data partition.

 

How do I go about this since the unallocated space is not contiguous to the

partition I want to add it to? The array is setup as a BASIC disk. Should I

convert it to a DYNAMIC disk and then use the diskpart utility to add the

space? Or, could I copy the data from the "historical" data partition,

delete it, add some unallocated space to my "current" data partition and

finally, recreate the "historical" data partition?

 

Any other recommendations?

 

Thank you!

 

Matthew Kyle