adding unformatted disk to spanned volume

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leeseeheng

Hi

I have a spanned volume up and running perfectly until I needed to add
yet another disk to it.

However, this time I mistakenly added an unformatted disk to the
volume. The additional space from the latest drive is not reflected in
the total spanned size.

Is there any solution to this other than recreating the whole volume ?
 
Can you elaborate a little more on how you created the spanned volume?
Is it a RAID volume running off a RAID card, or are u using windows dynamic
disks, or are you using partition magic?


If its a RAID card then within the utility you should be able to remove the
disk, format it and reacreate the spanned volume without losing any data
(although of course its a good idea to capture the data before any array
manipulation anyway)

If its dynamic disks that's a bit trickier (mainly because I don't work with
software RAID systems, nor would recommend them either!)
Dynamic disks, if the drive is unformatted you can create a new logical
partition on it, convert it to dynamic and span the existing volume onto it.

Partition magic will be able to manipulate the disks and logical drives and
volumes independently (depending on version) so you should be able to remove
the disk format it and add it to the array.

If you're not using partition magic, you could get a copy of it somewhere
and try to manipulate that way.

hth.

E.
MCP - Windows XP
 
I am using windows dynamic disk only. (software raid)

Previously I have converted basic disks to dynamic disks, and then
formatted each disk before extended the volume With the latest
harddisk, I missed the formatting step, and extended the volume.

I tried partition magic 8 (the latest I have). It correctly identify
all available dynamic disk, but did not offer any other disk operations
that allow me to change the size of the volume (unlike basic disks
where they can be dynamically resized).

I will try to see whether a newer partition magic (if any) can do the
trick .
 
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